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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. Apply the blood of Christ. Naturalists say, that blood applied to the Root of some trees makes them bear better. Sure I am, the blood of Christ applied to the heart, makes it flourish more in holiness. None so fruitful as a Believer; I know (saith St. Paul) whom I have believed, 2 Tim. 1.12. there was the applying blood to the Root of the tree, and how fruitful was he in zeal, love to Christ, Heroical courage! 2 Cor. 12.15. He that believes ⟨p. 613⟩Christ dyed for him, never thinks he can do, or suffer enough for Christ. When we read, and pray, now we do but water the Branches; when we believe, now we water the Root of the Tree and make it fruitful.
1. Apply the blood of Christ. Naturalists say, that blood applyed to the Root of some trees makes them bear better. Sure I am, the blood of Christ applyed to the heart, makes it flourish more in holiness. None so fruitful as a Believer; I know (saith St. Paul) whom I have believed, 2 Tim. 1.12. there was the applying blood to the Root of the tree, and how fruitful was he in zeal, love to Christ, Heroical courage! 2 Cor. 12.15. He that believes ⟨p. 613⟩Christ dyed for him, never thinks he can do, or suffer enough for Christ. When we read, and pray, now we do but water the Branches; when we believe, now we water the Root of the Tree and make it fruitfull.
2. Apply the Promises. Husbandmen have an art to comfort the spirits of the Root to make the tree bear better: Apply the Promises; these are for comforting the spirits of a Christian, and then he puts forth fruit more vigorously. It is an experiment in nature, the Root of the Pine tree watered with wine, doth cause it to flourish, the Promises are as wine to water the Trees of Righteousness whereby they spread and augment more in grace. Ever preserve the spirits of the tree if you would have it bear; a pensive dejected soul is less fruitful; but when through the Promises a Christians heart is cheered and comforted, now he is enriched with pleasant fruits, Camphire, and Spikenard, and Frankincense; he is like a Tree laden with fruit.