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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.
Answ. Answ. Two ways, 1. To them that are pure, all things are sanctified. Titus 1.15. To the pure all things are pure. Estate is sanctified, Relations are sanctified; as the Temple did sanctify the gold, and the Altar did sanctify the offering. To the unclean nothing is clean; their Table is a snare, their Temple-devotion is sin. There is a curse entailed upon a wicked man †; but holiness removes the curse,* and cuts off the entail; to the pure all things are pure. 2. The pure-hearted have all things work for their good; Rom. 8.28. Mercies and afflictions shall turn to their good; the most poysonful drug shall be medicinable; the most cross Providence shall carry on the design of their salvation*; who then would not be pure in heart? God is good to such as are of a clean heart.
Answ. Answ. Two wayes, 1. To them that are pure, all things are sanctified. Titus 1.15. To the pure all things are pure. Estate is sanctified, Relations are sanctified; as the Temple did sanctifie the gold, and the Altar did sanctifie the offering. To the unclean nothing is clean; their Table is a snare, their Temple-devotion is sin. There is a curse entailed upon a wicked man †; but holiness removes the curse,* and cuts off the entail; to the pure all things are pure. 2. The pure-hearted have all things work for their good; Rom. 8.28. Mercies and afflictions shall turn to their good; the most poysonful drug shall be medicinable; the most cross Providence shall carry on the design of their salvation*; who then would not be pure in heart? God is good to such as are of a clean heart.
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