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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.
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?
Answ Conviction fits for comfort; by conviction the Spirit doth sweetly dispose the heart to these two things. 1. To seek after Christ. When once the soul is convinced of sin, and the hell that follows it, now a Saviour is precious. When the Spirit hath shot in the arrow of conviction, now saith a poor soul, where may I meet with Christ? In what Ordinance may I come to enjoy Christ? saw ye him whom my soul loves? All the world for one glimpse of my Saviour. 2. The Spirit by conviction makes the heart willing to receive Christ upon his own terms: man, by nature, would article and indent with Christ; he would take half Christ; he would take him ⟨p. 113⟩for a Saviour, not a Prince; he would accept of Christ as he hath an head of gold,