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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. 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. ⟨p. 293⟩Col. 1.12. The inheritance of the Saints in light.
1. 'Tis pleasant, 'tis an inheritance in light.
2. 'Tis safe; God keeps the inheritance for his children. 1 Pet. 1.4. and keeps them for the inheritance; 1 Pet. 1.5. so that they cannot be hindered from taking possession.
3. There is no disinheriting; for the Saints are Coheirs with Christ,