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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. 3. What is meant by righteousness?
Answ. There is a two-fold righteousness.
1. Of Imputation. 2. Of Implantation.
11. A righteousness of Imputation; viz. Christs righteousness. Jer. 23.6. He shall be called the Lord our righteousness. This is as truly ours to justify, as it is Christs to bestow; by virtue of this righteousness God looks upon us as if we had never sinned, Num. 23.21. this is a perfect righteousness: Col. 2.10. Ye are complete in him; this doth not only cover, but adorn; he who hath this righteousness, is equal to the most illustrious Saints; the weakest believer is justified as much as the strongest; this is a Christians triumph; when he is defiled in himself, he is undefiled in his head; in this blessed righteousness we shine brighter than the Angels; this righteousness is worth hungering after.