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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. 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.
1. The first Royalty is a new name. He who is divinely adopted, assumes a new name; before a slave, now a son; of a sinner, a Saint, this is a name of honour, better than any title of Prince or Monarch. Rev. 2.17. To him that overcomes I will give a white stone, and in the stone a new name written. The white stone signifies remission; the new name signifies adoption; and the new name is put in the white stone, to show that our Adoption is grounded upon our Justification; and this new name is written, to show that God hath all the names of his children enrolled in the book of life.
1. The first Royalty is a new name. He who is divinely adopted, assumes a new name; before a slave, now a son; of a sinner, a Saint, this is a name of honor, better than any title of Prince or Monarch. Rev. 2.17. To him that overcomes I will give a white stone, and in the stone a new name written. The white stone signifies remission; the new name signifies adoption; and the new name is put in the white stone, to shew that our Adoption is grounded upon our Justification; and this new name is written, to shew that God hath all the names of his children enrolled in the book of life.
2. The second Royalty is, a giving the party adopted an interest in the inheritance. The making one an heir, implies a relation to an inheritance. A man doth not adopt another to a title, but an Estate; so God in adopting us for his children, gives us a glorious inheritance.