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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.
4. Christ was a lawful Preacher; as He had his Unction from his Father, so his Mission, John 8.18. The Father that sent me bears witness of me. Christ (in whom were all perfections concentered, yet,) would be solemnly sealed, and inaugurated into his Ministerial as well as Mediatory Office; if Jesus Christ would not enter upon the work of the Ministry without a Commission, how absurdly impudent are they who without any warrant dare invade this holy Function! There must be a lawful admission of men into the Ministry*. Heb. 5.4. No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is ⟨p. 4⟩called of God, as was Aaron. Our Lord Christ as he gave Apostles and Prophets which were extraordinary Ministers, so Pastors and Teachers which were initiated and made in an ordinary way, Ephes. 4.11. and He will have a Ministry perpetuated, Matth. 28.20. Lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the world. Sure, there is as much need of Ordination now, as in Christs time, and the time of the Apostles, there being then extraordinary gifts in the Church which are now ceased.
4. Christ was a lawful Preacher; as He had his Unction from his Father, so his Mission, John 8.18. The Father that sent me bears witnesse of me. Christ (in whom were all perfections concentred, yet,) would be solemnly sealed, and inaugurated into his Ministerial as wel as Mediatory Office; if Jesus Christ would not enter upon the work of the Ministry without a Commission, how absurdly impudent are they who without any warrant dare invade this holy Fuction! There must be a lawful admission of men into the Ministry*. Heb. 5.4. No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is