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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. The Bath of Christs blood*; this is that fountain opened for sin, and for uncleanness, Zach. 13.1. A soul steeped in the brinish tears of Repentance, and bathed in the blood of Christ, is made pure; this is that [Greek or Hebrew]; all the legal washings and purifications were but Types and Emblems, representing Christs blood; this blood lays the soul a whitening.
2. The Bath of Christs blood*; this is that fountain opened for sin, and for uncleanness, Zach. 13.1. A soul steeped in the brinish tears of Repentance, and bathed in the blood of Christ, is made pure; this is that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; all the legal washings and purifications were but Types and Emblems, representing Christs blood; this blood layes the soul a whitening.
- *Lavacrum sanguinis.
3. Get faith: 'Tis a soul-cleansing grace, Acts 15.9. Having purified their hearts by faith. The woman in the Gospel, that did but touch the hem of Christs garment was healed; a touch of faith heals. If I believe Christ and all his merits are mine, how can I sin against him? we do not willingly injure those friends which we believe love us: Nothing can have a greater force and efficacy upon the heart to make it pure, than faith; faith will remove Mountains; the Mountains of pride, lust, envy; faith and the love of sin are inconsistent.