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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. Do all in Christ; labour that your persons may ⟨p. 219⟩be in Christ. — We are accepted in him, Ephes. 1.6. Origen, Chrysostom, and Peter Martyr affirm, that the best works not springing from faith are lost. The Pelagians thought to have posed Austin with that question, Whether it was sin in the Heathen to clothe the naked? Austin answered rightly, The doing of good is not in it self simply evil, but proceeding of infidelity it becomes evil*. Titus 1.15. To them that are unbelieving is nothing pure*. That fruit is most sweet and genuine, which is brought forth in the Vine, John 15.4. Out of Christ all our Alms-deeds are but the fruit of the wild Olive*; they are not good works, but dead works.
1. Do all in Christ; labour that your persons may ⟨p. 219⟩be in Christ. — We are accepted in him, Ephes. 1.6. Origen, Chrysostom, and Peter Martyr affirm, that the best works not springing from faith are lost. The Pelagians thought to have posed Austin with that question, Whether it was sin in the Heathen to cloath the naked? Austin answered rightly, The doing of good is not in it self simply evil, but proceeding of infidelity it becomes evil*. Titus 1.15. To them that are unbelieving is nothing pure*