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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.
3. Because none but the pure in heart are interested in the Covenant of Grace; covenanted persons have the sprinkling with clean water, Ezek. 36.25. Now, till we are thus sprinkled, we have nothing to do with the new Covenant, and by consequence, with the new Jerusalem. If a Will be made only to such persons as are so qualified, none can come in for a part, but such as have those qualifications. So, God hath made a Will and Covenant that he will be our God, and will settle heaven upon us by entail, but with this clause, or proviso in the Will, that we be purified persons, having the clean water sprinkled upon us; Now till then, we have nothing to do with God, or mercy.
3. Because none but the pure in heart are interested in the Covenant of Grace; covenanted persons have the sprinkling with clean water, Ezek. 36.25. Now, till we are thus sprinkled, we have nothing to do with the new Covenant, and by consequence, with the new Jerusalem. If a Will be made only to such persons as are so qualified, none can come in for a part, but such as have those qualifications. So, God hath made a Will and Covenant that he will be our God, and will settle heaven upon us by entaile, but with this clause, or proviso in the Will, that we be purified persons, having the clean water sprinkled upon us; Now till then, we have nothing to do with God, or mercie.
4. Purity is the end of our election, Ephes. 1.4. He hath chosen us that we should be holy; not for holiness, to holiness, Rom. 8.29. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. God predestinates us to Christs image, which image consists in righteousness and true holiness,