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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.
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; Hebr. 1.3. The express image of his person; he was such a Son as was more worth than all the Angels in heaven. Hebr. 1.4. Being made so much better than the Angels; so that God adopts, not out of necessity, but pity.
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 voyce from heaven. Matth. 3. ult. This is my beloved Son: Never was there any Son so like the Father, he was his exact Effigies; Hebr. 1.3. The express image of his person; he was such a Son as was more worth than all the Angels in heaven. Hebr. 1.4. Being made so much better than the Angels; so that God adopts, not out of necessity, but pity.
2. When a man adopts, he adopts but one heir; but God adopts many. Hebr. 2.10. In bringing many sons to glory. Oh may a poor trembling Christian say, Why should I ever look for this privilege to be a child of God! 'tis true, if God did do as a man, if he did only adopt one son, then thou mightest despair; but he adopts millions, he brings many sons to glory; indeed this may be the reason why a man adopts but one, because