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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. Adoption consists in an immunity and disobligement from all the Laws of the former Family. Psal. 45.10. Forget also thy fathers house. He who is spiritually adopted, hath now no more to do with sin. Ephraim shall say, What have I any more to do with Idols? Hos. 14.8. A child of God hath indeed to do with sin as with an enemy to which he gives battle; but not as with a Lord, to which he yields obedience. He is free from sin, Rom. 6.8. I do not say he is free from duty: Was it ever heard that a child should be freed from duty to his parents? this is such a freedom as Rebels take.
2. Adoption consists in an immunity and disobligement from all the Laws of the former Family. Psal. 45.10. Forget also thy fathers house. He who is spiritually adopted, hath now no more to do with sin. Ephraim shall say, What have I any more to do with Idols? Hos. 14.8. A child of God hath indeed to do with sin as with an enemy to which he gives battel; but not as with a Lord, to which he yields obedience. He is free from sin, Rom. 6.8. I do not say he is free from duty: Was it ever heard that a child should be freed from duty to his parents? this is such a freedom as Rebels take.
3. Adoption consists in a Legal investiture into the Rights and Royalties of the Family into which the person is to be adopted; these are chiefly two.