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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.
2. There is a created Purity; Thus holiness is in the Angels, and was once in Adam; Adams heart had not the ⟨p. 223⟩least spot or tincture of impurity. We call that wine pure which hath no sophistication; and that gold pure which hath no dross mingled with it. Such was Adams holiness, it was like the wine which comes from the grape, having no mixture; but this is not to be found on earth, we must go to heaven for it.
2. There is a created Purity; Thus holinesse is in the Angels, and was once in Adam; Adams heart had not the ⟨p. 223⟩least spot or tincture of impurity. We call that wine pure which hath no sophistication; and that gold pure which hath no drosse mingled with it. Such was Adams holinesse, it was like the wine which comes from the grape, having no mixture; but this is not to be found on earth, we must go to heaven for it.
3. There is an evangelical purity; when grace is mingled with some sin; like Gold in the Oar, like air in the twilight, like wine that hath a dash in it, like fine cloth with a course list; like Nebuchadnezzars image, part of silver and part of clay, Dan. 2.35. This mixture God calls purity in a Gospel-sense; as a face may be said to be fair which hath some freckles in it. Where there is a study of purity, and a loathing our selves for our impurity, this is to be pure in heart.
3. There is an evangelical purity; when grace is mingled with some sin; like Gold in the Oare, like aire in the twilight, like wine that hath a dash in it, like fine cloth with a course list; like Nebuchadnezzars image, part of silver and part of clay, Dan. 2.35. This mixture God calls purity in a Gospel-sence; as a face may be said to be fair which hath some freckles in it. Where there is a study of purity, and a loathing our selves for our impurity, this is to be pure in heart.