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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.
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.
4. Breath after the Spirit; it is called the holy Spirit, Eph. 1.13. It purgeth the heart, as Lightning purgeth the Air: That we may see what a purifying virtue the Spirit hath, it is compared
4. Breath after the Spirit; it is called the holy Spirit, Eph. 1.13. It purgeth the heart, as Lightning purgeth the Aire: That we may see what a purifying vertue the Spirit hath, it is compar'd