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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
Appendix › The trees of Righteousness blossoming, and bringing forth fruit.
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.
1. How a Christian brings forth fruit. 2. What is the fruit he brings forth.
1. How a Christian brings forth fruit. I answer; he brings forth fruit in the Vine; by nature we are barren; there is not one good blossom growing on us; but when by faith we are engrafted into Christ, then we grow and fructify: Joh. 15.4. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the Vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me. Jesus Christ is that blessed Root which shoots up that sap of grace into his Branches. The Pelagians tell us we have sufficiency of our selves to bring forth good fruit: but how improper is this? doth not the Root contribute to the Branches? is it not of Christs precious fullness that we receive? Joh. 1.16. Therefore it is observable Christ calls the Spouses grace his grace: Cant. 5.1. I have gathered my Myrrh with my Spice. Christ saith not, thy myrrh, but my myrrh. Emissions istae bone Jesu, sunt emissiones tuae. Bern. in Cant. If the Saints bear any spiritual fruit, they are beholding to Christ for it, it is his wine, it is his myrrh: Hose. 14.8. From me is thy fruit found.
1. How a Christian brings forth fruit. I answer; he brings forth fruit in the Vine; by nature we are barren; there is not one good blossome growing on us; but when by faith we are engraffed into Christ, then we grow and fructifie: Joh. 15.4. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the Vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me. Jesus Christ is that blessed Root which shoots up that sap of grace into his Branches. The Pelagians tell us we have sufficiency of our selves to bring forth good fruit: but how improper is this? doth not the Root contribute to the Branches? is it not of Christs pretious fulness that we receive?