A96093:1995
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.
A Christians happiness is in reversion, it is yet behind; a Saint in in this life is aeternitatis candidatus, a candidate and expectant of heaven; he hath little in hand, but much in hope; so saith the Text, Looking for that blessed hope, &c.
There is enough to make us breathe after that hope▪ if we look either Intra, or Extra.
There is enough to mak us breathe after that hope▪ if we look either Intra, or Extra.
1. Intra, if we turn our eyes inward and behold •ur sins. This made Paul himself cry out, O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. A Christian hath two men within him; flesh and Spirit; this may make him look for that blessed hope, when he shall be disentangled of his sins, and shall be as the Angels of God.
1. Intra, if we turn our eyes inward and behold •ur sins. This made Paul himself cry out, O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. A Christian hath two men within him; flesh and Spirit; this may make him look for that blessed hope, when he shall be disintangled of his sins, and shall be as the Angels of God.