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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
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.
Some satisfy themselves with the having of Ordinances. Judg. 17.13. Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my Priest. But what is Physic if it be not applied? what is it to have the sound of the word in our ears, unless we have the savour of it in our hearts? It will be little comfort to men on their death-beds, to think that Christ hath been preached in their streets, and they have been lifted up to heaven in Gospel administrations, when their Consciences shall tell them they have been unholy and unreformed; they have come into Gods House as the beasts did into the Ark; they came in unclean, and went out of the Ark unclean.
Some satisfie themselves with the having of Ordinances. Judg. 17.13. Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my Priest. But what is Physick if it be not applied? what is it to have the sound of the word in our ears, unless we have the savour of it in our hearts? It will be little comfort to men on their death-beds, to think that Christ hath been preached in their streets, and they have been lifted up to heaven in Gospel administrations, when their Consciences shall tell them they have been unholy and unreformed; they have come into Gods House as the beasts did into the Ark; they came in unclean, and went out of the Ark unclean.
Use. 2 2. It exhorts all to become Practitioners in Religion.1 There are three steps leading to heaven, Knowledge, Assent, Practice; it is not the taking the two first steps, but the third step which will make you happy. Obedience is the Grand precept both of the Law and Gospel; in this stands a Christians duty, in this consists his felicity. 1 Sam. 15.22