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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. 6.
Containing a Vindication of the Church of England.
Use 1 Use 1. 1IT may serve to justify the Church of England against the calumny of malevolent men:2 Julian upbraided the Christians that they were Solifidians; and the Church of Rome lays upon us this aspersion, that we are against good works; indeed we plead not for the merit of them, but we are for the use of them. Titus 3.14. Let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary use. We preach they are needful both necessitate praecepti, and medii*: We read the Angels had wings, and hands under their wings, Ezek. 1.8. It may be emblematical of this truth, Christians must not only have the wings of faith to fly, but hands under their wings to work the works of mercy. Tit. 3.8. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you maintain constantly, that they which have believed in God, might be careful to maintain good works. The Lamp of faith must be filled with the oil of charity; faith alone justifies, but justifying faith is not alone; you may as well separate weight from lead, or heat from fire, as works from faith; good works, though they are not the causes of salvation, yet they are