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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.
2. A Christian brings forth outward fruit.
1. The fruit of good discourse: Prov. 15.4. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Gracious speeches fall from the lips of a godly man, as fruit from a tree.
2. The fruit of good works; Col. 1.10. God will §2say at the last day, show me thy faith by thy works, Jam. 2.18. A true Saint doth all the good he can, honouring the Lord with his substance; he knows he is to be in the world but a while, therefore lives much in a little time, and crowds up a great deal of work in a little room; it was Christs speech not long before his suffering, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, Joh. 17.4. How can they be said to finish their work, that never yet began a good work?
2. The fruit of good works; Col. 1.10. God will §2say at the last day, show me thy faith by thy works, Jam. 2.18. A true Saint doth all the good he can, honouring the Lord with his substance; he knows he is to be in the world but a while, therefore lives much in a little time, and crowds up a great deale of work in a little room; it was Christs speech not long before his suffering, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do,