A96093:1989
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.
8. Run in the strength of Christ; do not think you can of your selves win the race; the Arminians talk of Free-will, but it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, Rom. 9.16. by nature we are blind, and lame, therefore unfit to run a race; we run fastest when Christ takes us by the hand.
9. If you would run so as to obtain, be often in the exercise of grace; is it not enough to have grace in the habit, but in the exercise. Such as run the heavenly race, must not only be living, but lively; they must have a flourishing faith, a flaming love: What is the meaning of the Loins girt, and the Lamps burning, Luke 12.35. ⟨p. 573⟩but grace in its activity? without this there can be no speed in the heavenly race.
9. If you would run so as to obtain, be often in the exercise of grace; is it not enough to have grace in the habit, but in the exercise. Such as run the heavenly race, must not only be living, but lively; they must have a flourishing faith, a flaming love: What is the meaning of the Loines girt, and the Lamps burning, Luke 12.35. ⟨p. 573⟩but grace in its activity? without this there can be no speed in the heavenly race.
If you would run hard, pray hard; Prayer helps us on in the race. Luther was a man of Prayer: Pray over that Prayer,