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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. He walks with God, Gen. 6.9. He is still doing ⟨p. 247⟩Angels work; praising God, serving God; he lives as Christ did upon Earth. Holy duties are the Jacobs Ladder by which he is still ascending to heaven. Purity of heart and life are in Scripture made Twins; Ezek. 36.27. I will put my Spirit within them: there is purity of heart; and they shall walk in my statutes; there is purity of life. Shall we account them pure, whose Conversation is not in heaven*, but rather in hell? Micah 6.11. Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? How justly may others reproach Religion, when they see it kicked down with our unholy feet! a pure heart hath a golden Frontispiece; grace like new wine will have vent; it can be no more concealed than lost. The Saints are called Jewels, Mal. 3. because of that shining lustre they cast in the eyes of others.
2. He walks with God, Gen. 6.9. He is still doing ⟨p. 247⟩Angels work; praising God, serving God; he lives as Christ did upon Earth. Holy duties are the Jacobs Ladder by which he is still ascending to heaven. Purity of heart and life are in Scripture made Twins; Ezek. 36.27. I will put my Spirit within them: there is purity of heart; and they shall walk in my statutes; there is purity of life. Shall we account them pure, whose Conversation is not in heaven*, but rather in hell? Micah 6.11