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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.
Doctr. Christians should above all things breath after heart-purity, 1 Tim. 3.9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience; justification causeth our happiness, sanctification evidenceth it.
Doctr. Christians should above all things breath after heart-purity, 1 Tim. 3.9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience; justification causeth our happinesse, sanctification evidenceth it.
Reasons for 1. Purity. 2. Heart-purity.
1The Reasons for Purity are, 1. Purity is a thing called for in Scripture, 1 Pet. 1.16. Be ye holy, for I am holy. It is not only the Minister bids you be holy, but God himself calls for it; what should the holy God do with unholy servants? 2. Because of that filthy and cursed condition we are in before purity be wrought in us; we are a lump of clay and sin mingled together; sin doth not only blind us, but defile us; it is called [Greek or Hebrew], filthiness, James 1.21. And to show how befilthying a thing it is, 'tis compared to a plague-soar, 1 Kings 8.38. To spots, Deut. 32.5. To a vomit, 2 Pet. 2.22