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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.
3. A child of God desires to keep every command; ⟨p. 653⟩Psal. 119.5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes. what a child of God wants in strength, he makes up in will; Rom. 7.18. To will is present. The regenerate Will stands bent to all Gods Precepts.
3. A child of God desires to keep every command; ⟨p. 653⟩Psal. 119.5. O that my wayes were directed to keep thy statutes. what a child of God wants in strength, he makes up in will; Rom. 7.18. To will is present. The regenerate Will stands bent to all Gods Precepts.
4. The gracious soul mourns that he can do no better; when he fails, he weeps: O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. O this unbelieving heart! how am I clogged with corruption! The good I would, I do not. Thus doth a Child of God lament his failings, and judge himself for them, and this is in a Gospel sense to keep every Law.
4. The gracious soul mourns that he can do no better; when he fails, he weeps: O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. O this unbelieving heart! how am I clog'd with corruption! The good I would, I do not. Thus doth a Child of God lament his failings, and judge himself for them, and this is in a Gospel sense to keep every Law.