A96093:1936
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.
Doctr. The first Doctrine is, That Christianity is a race; or the life of a Christian is a race. Hebr. 12.1. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us: We must be Viatores▪ before we are Comprehensores; heaven is a place of rest. Hebr. 4.9. There remains a rest for the people of God: No more wrestling there, for then we have overcome the enemy; the Saints in glory are set forth with Palms in their hands, Rev. 7.9. in token of victory. No more running there; for the prize being obtained, the Saints have ⟨p. 557⟩Thrones to sit and rest themselves upon, Revel. 3.21. But this life is a race, and it must be run, and so run.
Doctr. The first Doctrine is, That Christianity is a race; or the life of a Christian is a race. Hebr. 12.1. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us: We must be Viatores▪ before we are Comprehensores; heaven is a place of rest. Hebr. 4.9. There remains a rest for the people of God: No more wrestling there, for then we have overcome the enemy; the Saints in glory are set forth with Palms in their hands, Rev. 7.9. in token of victory. No more running there; for the prize being obtain'd, the Saints have ⟨p. 557⟩Thrones to sit and rest themselves upon, Revel. 3.21. But this life is a race, and it must be run, and so run.