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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.
2. The Spirit of God is a sanctifying, before a comforting Spirit; as Gods Spirit is called the Comforter, so he is called a spirit of grace, Zach. 12.10. Grace is the work of the Spirit, Comfort is the seal of the Spirit; the work of the Spirit goes before the seal; the graces of the spirit are compared to water, Isa. 44.3. and the comforts of the spirit are compared to oil, Isa. 61.1. First, God pours in the water of the spirit, and then comes the oil of gladness. The oil (in this sense) runs above the water; Hereby we shall know whether our comforts are true and genuine. Some talk of the comforting spirit, who never ⟨p. 114⟩had the sanctifying Spirit; they boast of assurance, but never had grace; these are spurious joys, these comforts will leave men at death, they will end in horror and despair: Gods Spirit will never set seal to a Blank. First, the heart must be an Epistle written with the finger of the Holy Ghost, and then it is sealed with the Spirit of Promise.
2. The Spirit of God is a sanctifying, before a comforting Spirit; as Gods Spirit is called the Comforter, so he is called a spirit of grace, Zach. 12.10. Grace is the work of the Spirit, Comfort is the seal of the Spirit; the work of the Spirit goes before the seal; the graces of the spirit are compared to water, Isa. 44.3. and the comforts of the spirit are compared to oyle, Isa. 61.1. First, God pours in the water of the spirit, and then comes the oyle of gladnesse. The oyle (in this sence) runs above the water; Hereby we shall know whether our comforts are true and genuine. Some talk of the comforting spirit, who never ⟨p. 114⟩had the sanctifying Spirit; they boast of assurance, but never had grace; these are spurious joyes, these comforts will leave men at death, they will end in horror and despair: Gods Spirit will never set seal to a Blank. First, the heart must be an Epistle written with the finger of the Holy Ghost, and then it is sealed with the Spirit of Promise.