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The beatitudes
The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Whereunto is added Christs various fullness. The preciousness of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousness. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Wherunto is added Christs various fulnesse. The preciousnesse of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousnesse. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. True grace will make us willing to suffer for Christ. Grace is like gold, it will abide the fiery trial, 1 Pet. 1.7. — And if upon a serious scrutiny and trial we find that we have the right jewel, the grace of God in truth, Col. 1.6. this will be a death-bed cordial; we may with Simeon, depart in peace, being assured that though we cannot resist death, yet we shall overcome it.
Use 3 3. Let me lay down two or three directions for the attaining of grace.1
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1. If we would be enriched with this jewel of grace, let us take pains for it; we are bid to make an hue and cry after knowledge, and to search for it, as a man that searcheth for a vein of gold, Prov. 2.2, 3. Our salvation cost Christ blood, it will cost us sweat.