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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. What account can the unfruitful Christian give to God? God will come with this question, Where is your fruit? a godly man dies full of fruit; Job 5.26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of Corn, &c. The unfruitful Christian comes to his grave not as shock of corn, but as a bundle of straw, fit only for the fire: 'Tis good to bethink our selves what answer we shall give to God for our barrenness. The Lord hath planted us in a rich soil; he may say to us as to his Vineyard, Isa. 5.1. My beloved hath a Vineyard in a very fruitful hill, and he fenced it, and planted it with the choicest Vine, &c. and he looked that it should bring forth Grapes, ⟨p. 602⟩and it brought forth wild grapes, in an Hill] hilly places are judged the fittest for Vines to grow in, Psal. 80.10. there the Sun comes best, and is of more force for ripening the Grapes.
2. What account can the unfruitful Christian give to God? God will come with this question, Where is your fruit? a godly man dies full of fruit; Job 5.26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of Corn, &c. The unfruitful Christian comes to his grave not as shock of corn, but as a bundle of straw, fit only for the fire: 'Tis good to bethink our selves what answer we shall give to God for our barrenness. The Lord hath planted us in a rich soil; he may say to us as to his Vineyard, Isa. 5.1. My beloved hath a Vineyard in a very fruitful hill, and he fenced it, and planted it with the choisest Vine, &c. and he looked that it should bring forth Grapes, ⟨p. 602⟩and it brought forth wild grapes, in an Hill] hilly places are judged the fittest for Vines to grow in, Psal. 80.10. there the Sun comes best, and is of more force for ripening the Grapes.