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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.
1. COMFORTS HERE.] They are called the consolations of God, Job 15.11. That is, Great comforts, such as none but God can Give; they exceed all other comforts as far as heaven doth earth. The root on which these comforts grow, is, The blessed Spirit; he is called [Greek or Hebrew], the Comforter, John 14.26. and comfort is said to be a fruit of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22. Christ did purchase peace, the Spirit speaks peace. Quest. How doth the Spirit comfort? Answ. Either Mediately. or Immediately.
1. COMFORTS HERE.] They are called the consolations of God, Job 15.11. That is, Great comforts, such as none but God can Give; they exceed all other comforts as far as heaven doth earth. The root on which these comforts grow, is, The blessed Spirit; he is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Comforter, John 14.26. and comfort is said to be a fruit of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22. Christ did purchase peace, the Spirit speaks peace. Quest. How doth the Spirit comfort? Answ. Either Mediately. or Immediately.
1. Mediately; By helping us to apply the Promises to §1ourselves, and draw water out of those Wells of salvation; we lie as dead children at the breast, till the Spirit helps us to suck the breast of a Promise; and when the Spirit hath taught Faith this Art, now comfort flows in. O how sweet is the breast-milk of a Promise!