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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.
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Use 1 IF there is such a blessedness in Reversion, be Use 1 convinced of the truth of this, set it down as an Article of your faith. We live in times wherein many are grown Atheists, they have run through all opinions; and now of Professors they are turned Epicures; they have drunk in so much of the poison of Error, that they are quite intoxicated, and fallen asleep, and begin to dream there is no such thing as a state of blessedness after this life; and this opinion is to them above the Bible. When men have the spiritual staggers, it sadly presageth they will dye. Oh it is a dangerous thing to hesitate and waver about fundamentals; like Pythagoras, who doubted whether there was a God or no! so, whether there be a blessedness or no. Doubting of principles, is the next way to the denying of principles. Let it be a Maxim with every good Christian, There is a blessedness in Reversion, there remains a rest for the people of God, Hebr. 4.9.
Use 1 IF there is such a blessedness in Reversion, be Use 1 convinced of the truth of this, set it down as an Article of your faith. We live in times wherein many are grown Atheists, they have run through all opinions; and now of Professors they are turned Epicures; they have drunk in so much of the poyson of Error, that they are quite intoxicated, and fallen asleep, and begin to dream there is no such thing as a state of blessedness after this life; and this opinion is to them above the Bible. When men have the spiritual staggers, it sadly presageth they will dye. Oh it is a dangerous thing to hesitate and waver about fundamentals; like Pythagoras, who doubted whether there was a God or no! so, whether there be a blessedness or no. Doubting of principles, is the next way to the denying of principles. Let it be a Maxim with every good Christian, There is a blessedness in Reversion, there remains a rest for the people of God, Hebr. 4.9.