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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. Fruit is that which God expects from us, we are his plantation; and Who planteth a Vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? 1 Cor. 9.7. Let us not be as Pharaohs kine, which devoured the fat, and yet still were lean; let us not be still devouring Sermons, yet never the fatter.
2. Fruitfulness is one of the best distinctive Characters of a Christian; Prov. 12.12. The root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. Fruitfulness differeth a Saint from an Hypocrite; the Hypocrite is all for show and pretence, he hath fair leaves, but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit; fruit can no more be separated from faith, than moisture from the Air, it is the very definition of a branch in Christ, it bears fruit, Joh. 15.2. As a man differs from a beast by Reason, a beast differs from a plant by sense, a plant differs from a stone by vegetation; so a good Christian differs from an Hypocrite by fruit. Fruitfulness puts a difference between the sound tree and the hollow tree.
2. Fruitfulness is one of the best distinctive Characters of a Christian; Prov. 12.12. The root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. Fruitfulness differeth a Saint from an Hypocrite; the Hypocrite is all for show and pretence, he hath fair leaves, but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit; fruit can no more be separated from faith, than moisture from the Air, it is the very definition of a branch in Christ, it bears fruit, Joh. 15.2. As a man differs from a beast by Reason, a beast differs from a plant by sense, a plant differs from a stone by vegetation; so a good Christian differs from an Hypocrite by fruit. Fruitfulnesse puts a difference between the sound tree and the hollow tree.