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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. It is the will of God that we should be pure in heart, 1 Thes. 4.3. This is the will of God, your sanctification. Are you low in the world? perhaps it is not the will of God that you should be rich; but it is the will of God that you should be holy; This is the will of God, your sanctification. Let God have his will by being holy, and you shall have your will in being happy. Gods will must either be fulfilled by us, or upon us.
3. Purity of heart is the characteristical note of Gods people, Psal. 73.1. God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Heart-purity denominates us the Israel of God. It is not profession which makes us the Israel of God; it makes us of Israel indeed; but, all are not Israel which are of Israel, Rom. 9.6. Purity of heart is the jewel which is hung only upon the elect. As chastity distinguisheth a virtuous woman from an Harlot; so the true Saint is distinguished from the Hypocrite by his heart-purity. This is like the Nobleman's star, or garter, which is a peculiar ensign of honour, differing him from the vulgar; when the bright star of purity shineth in a Christians heart, ⟨p. 251⟩it doth distinguish him from a formal professor.
3. Purity of heart is the characteristical note of Gods people, Psal. 73.1. God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. Heart-purity denominates us the Israel of God. It is not profession which makes us the Israel of God; it makes us of Israel indeed; but, all are not Israel which are of Israel, Rom. 9.6. Purity of heart is the jewel which is hung only upon the elect. As chastity distinguisheth a vertuous woman from an Harlot; so the true Saint is distinguished from the Hypocrite by his heart-purity. This is like the Noblemans star, or garter, which is a peculiar ensign of honor, differing him from the vulgar; when the bright star of purity shineth in a Christians heart,