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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.
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 Titus 2.14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people; Christ shed his blood to wash off our filth; the Cross was both an Altar and a Laver. Jesus Christ died not only to save us from wrath, 1 Thes. 1. ult. but to save us from sin, Matth. 1.21. Out of his sides came water, which signifies our cleansing as well as blood, which signifies our justifying, 1 John 5.6. The truth is, it were to make the body of Christ monstrous, if the head should be pure and not the members.
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 Titus 2.14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purifie unto himself a peculiar people; Christ shed his blood to wash off our filth; the Crosse was both an Altar and a Lavor. Jesus Christ died not only to save us from wrath, 1 Thes. 1. ult. but to save us from sin, Matth. 1.21. Out of his sides came water, which signifies our cleansing as well as blood, which signifies our justifying, 1 John 5.6. The truth is, it were to make the body of Christ monstrous, if the head should be pure and not the members.