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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. Their Commission: God hath entrusted them as Ambassadors: 2 Cor. 5.20. Now you know an Ambassador waits for a day of Audience, and as soon as a day is granted, he doth faithfully and impartially deliver the mind of his Prince: Thus Christs Ministers having a Commission delegated to them to negotiate for souls, should be glad when there is a day of Audience, that they may impart the mind and will of Christ to his people.
1. Their Commission: God hath intrusted them as Ambassadors: 2 Cor. 5.20. Now you know an Ambassador waits for a day of Audience, and as soon as a day is granted, he doth faithfully and impartially deliver the mind of his Prince: Thus Christs Ministers having a Commission delegated to them to negotiate for souls, should be glad when there is a day of Audience, that they may impart the mind and will of Christ to his people.
2. Their Titles. 1. Ministers are called Gods Seeds-men, 1 Cor. 9.11. therefore they must upon all occasions be scattering the blessed seed of the Word: The Sower must go forth and sow; yea, though the seed fall upon stones (as usually it doth) yet we must disseminate, and scatter the seed of the Word upon stony hearts, because even of these stones God is able to raise up children to himself. 2. Ministers are called Stars; therefore they must shine by Word and Doctrine in the Firmament of the Church. Thus our Lord Christ hath set them a pattern in the Text: Seeing the multitude, he went up into the Mountain; here was a light set upon an hill; the bright Morning Star shining to all that were round about. Christ calls his Ministers, Lux Mundi, the light of the World, Matth. 5.14. therefore they must be always giving forth their lustre; their light must not go out till it be in the socket, or till violent death as an extinguisher put it out.