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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.
4. The heirs never dye; eternity is a jewel of their Crown. Revel. 22.5. They shall reign for ever and ever.
Before I pass to the next, here a question may arise, How Gods Adopting, and mans Adopting differ.
1. Man adopts to supply a defect, because he hath no children of his own; but God doth not adopt upon this account; he had a Son of his own, the Lord Jesus; he was his natural Son, and the Son of his love, testified by a voice from heaven. Matth. 3. ult. This is my beloved Son: Never was there any Son so like the Father, he was his exact Effigies;