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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.
6. Christs earnest prayer was for peace; he prayed that his people might be one, John 17.11, 21, 23. that they might be of one mind and heart: And observe the Argument Christ useth in prayer, (it is good to use Arguments in prayer; they are as the feathers to the Arrow, which make it fly swifter, and pierce deeper; Affections in prayer are as the fire in the Gun; Arguments in prayer are as the Bullet) the Argument Christ urgeth to his Father, is, Ver. 22. That they may be one, even as we are one. There was never any discord between God the Father and Christ; though God parted with Christ out of his bosom, yet not out of his heart. There was ever dearness and oneness between them: Now Christ prays, that as he and his Father were one, so his people might be all one in peace and concord. Did Christ pray so earnestly for peace, and shall not we endeavour what in us lies to fulfil Christs prayer? how do we think Christ will hear our prayer, if we cross his?
6. Christs earnest prayer was for peace; he prayed that his people might be one, John 17.11, 21, 23. that they might be of one mind and heart: And observe the Argument Christ useth in prayer, (it is good to use Arguments in prayer; they are as the feathers to the Arrow, which make it flie swifter, and pierce deeper; Affections in prayer are as the fire in the Gun; Arguments in prayer are as the Bullet) the Argument Christ urgeth to his Father, is, Ver. 22. That they may be one, even as we are one. There was never any discord between God the Father and Christ; though God parted with Christ out of his bosome, yet not out of his heart. There was ever dearness and oneness between them: Now Christ prays, that as he and his Father were one, so his people might be all one in peace and concord. Did Christ pray so earnestly for peace, and shall not we endeavour what in us lies to fulfill Christs prayer? how do we think Christ will hear our prayer, if we cross his?