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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.
Quest. Wherein do these comforts of the Spirit which are unquestionably sure, differ from those which are false and pretended.
Answ. Three ways. 1. The comforts of Gods Spirit are laid in deep conviction, John 16.7, 8, and when he (that is, the Comforter, verse 7.) is come, he shall reprove, (or as the Greek word is, [Greek or Hebrew], he shall convince) the world of sin.
Answ. Three ways. 1. The comforts of Gods Spirit are laid in deep conviction, John 16.7, 8, and when he (that is, the Comforter, verse 7.) is come, he shall reprove, (or as the Greek word is, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he shall convince) the world of sinne.
Quest. Why doth conviction go before consolation?