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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.
SECT. I.
The Inferences drawn from the Proposition.
1. SEE here at what a low price God sets heavenly Use 1 things; it is but hungering and thirsting. 1Isa. 55.1. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, buy Branch. 1 without money. We are not bid to bring any merits as the Papists would do; nor to bring a sum of money to purchase righteousness; Rich men would be loth to do that; all that is required is to bring an appetite. Christ hath fulfilled all righteousness, we are only to hunger and thirst after righteousness; this is equal and reasonable; God requires not Rivers of oil, but sighs and tears; the invitation of the Gospel is free; if a friend invite Guests to his Table, he doth not expect they should bring money to pay for their Dinner, only come with an appetite; so saith God, Tis not penance, pilgrimage, self-righteousness I require; only bring a stomach, hunger and thirst after righteousness. God might have set Christ and salvation at an higher price; but he hath much beaten down the price: Now as this shows the sweetness of Gods Nature, he is not an hard Master; so it shows us the inexcusableness of them who perish under the Gospel; What Apology can any man make at the day of judgement, when God shall ask that question, Friend, why didst thou not embrace Christ? I set Christ and grace at a low rate; if thou hadst ⟨p. 156⟩