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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.
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, Ephes. 4.24. So that till thou art holy thou canst not show any sign of ⟨p. 226⟩election upon thee, but rather the Devils brand-mark.
4. Purity is the end of our election, Ephes. 1.4. He hath chosen us that we should be holy; not for holinesse, to holinesse, 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 righteousnesse and true holinesse, Ephes. 4.24. So that till thou art holy thou canst not shew any signe of ⟨p. 226⟩election upon thee, but rather the Divels brand-mark.
5. Purity is the end of our redemption; if we could have gone to heaven in our sins, Christ needed not have died. Why did he shed his blood but to redeem us from a vain conversation? 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. and