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The holy longing
The holy longing: or, The saints desire to be with Christ: delivered in a sermon at Al-hallows Lombard-street, Aug. 24. 1658. At the funeral of Mr. Jacob Stock. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The holy longing: or, The saints desire to be with Christ: delivered in a sermon at Al-hallows Lumbard-street, Aug. 24. 1658. At the funeral of Mr. Jacob Stock. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed by E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1Answ. By faith; faith is the uniting grace, it is [Greek or Hebrew] as Chrysostom speaks; it is the vital, radical, cardinal grace: this gives the interest. Faith is the queen of ⟨p. 40⟩the graces; by faith we take Christ as a husband, and give up our selves to him as a Lord; faith is a Christ appropriating grace; it hath both a relying and an applying faculty; Christ is the Ring, faith is the finger that puts on this Ring; faith opens the Orifice in Christs sides, and drinks in his blood*; faith is both justifying and sanctifying; it fetcheth blood out of Christs sides to pardon, and water out of his sides to purge, 1 John 5. 6. Oh with all gettings get faith.
1Answ. By faith; faith is the uniting grace, it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as Chrysostome speaks; it is the vital, radical, cardinal grace: this gives the interest. Faith is the queen of ⟨p. 40⟩the graces; by faith we take Christ as a husband, and give up our selves to him as a Lord; faith is a Christ approptiating grace; it hath both a relying and an applying faculty; Christ is the Ring, faith is the finger that puts on this Ring; faith opens the Orifice in Christs sides, and drinks in his blood*; faith is both justifying and sanctifying; it fetcheth blood out of Christs sides to pardon, and water out of his sides to purge, 1 John 5. 6. Oh with all gettings get faith.
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- *Per fidem Christi sanguinem sugimus & juter redemptoris nostri vulnera linguam figimus. Cypr.