A96093:997
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.
SECT. 3.
Showing how we come to be Gods children.
Shewing how we come to be Gods children.
3. THE third thing is, How we come to be the §3children of God?
Answ. There is a double cause of our filiation or childship.
1. The Causa [Greek or Hebrew], or impulsive cause, is Gods [Greek or Hebrew], his free-grace: We were Rebels and Traitors, and what could move God to make sinners sons, but free-grace? Ephes. 1.5. Having predestinated us unto the Adoption of children, according to the good pleasure of his will. Free-grace gave the casting voice; Adoption is a mercy spun out of the bowels of free-grace; it were much for God to take a clod of earth, and make it a Star; but it is more for God to take a piece of clay and sin, and instate it into the glorious privilege of son-ship. How will the Saints read over the Lectures of free-grace in heaven?