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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. If you would have grace, engage the prayers of others in your behalf; he is like to be rich, who hath several stocks going; he is in the way of spiritual thriving, who hath several stocks of prayer going for him. If you had a child that were sick, you would beg the prayers of others; thou hast a soul that is sick, sick of pride, lust, sick unto death; oh beg the prayers of godly friends, that God will heal thee with his grace; a Moses and Jacob have much power with God: Believers can prevail sometimes not only for themselves, but for their friends, Jam. 5.16. A godly mans prayers may do you more good than if he should bestow upon you all his lands of inheritance.
3. If you would have grace, engage the prayers of others in your behalf; he is like to be rich, who hath several stocks going; he is in the way of spiritual thriving, who hath several stocks of prayer going for him. If you had a childe that were sick, you would beg the prayers of others; thou hast a soul that is sick, sick of pride, lust, sick unto death; oh beg the prayers of godly friends, that God will heal thee with his grace; a Moses and Jacob have much power with God: Believers can prevail sometimes not only for themselves, but for their friends, Jam. 5.16. A godly mans prayers may do you more good than if he should bestow upon you all his lands of inheritance.
4. If you would have grace, frequent the means of grace, lie at the pool of Bethesda, wait at the posts of wisdoms door. ⟨p. 528⟩Inward grace is wrought by outward means; the preaching of the Word is Gods Engine that he useth for working grace; it is called the rod of his strength, Psal. 110.2. and the breath of his lips,