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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.
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, Isa. 11.4. By this he causeth breath to enter; out of this golden pipe of the Sanctuary, God empties the golden oil of grace into the soul; the Ministry of the Gospel is called the Ministry of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 8. because the Spirit of God ordinarily makes use of this to work grace; this Ministry of the Spirit is to be preferred before the Ministry of Angels.
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, Isa. 11.4. By this he causeth breath to enter; out of this golden pipe of the Sanctuary, God empties the golden oyle of grace into the soul; the Ministry of the Gospel is called the Ministry of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 8. because the Spirit of God ordinarily makes use of this to work grace; this Ministry of the Spirit is to be preferred before the Ministry of Angels.