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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.
Ans. 1. An high prizing of Gods one. If God should ⟨p. 324⟩say to the deserted soul, what wilt thou, and it shall be granted to half of the Kingdom? he would reply, Lord, that I might see thee, as I was wont in the Sanctuary; That I may have one golden beam of thy love; the deserted soul slights all other things in comparison; it is not gardens, or orchards, or the most delicious Objects that can give him contentment; they are like music to a sad heart; he desires as Absalom, to see the Kings face.
Ans. 1. An high prizing of Gods ove. If God should ⟨p. 324⟩say to the deserted soul, what wilt thou, and it shall be granted to half of the Kingdom? he would reply, Lord, that I might see thee, as I was wont in the Sanctuary; That I may have one golden beam of thy love; the deserted soul slights all other things in comparison; it is not gardens, or orchards, or the most delicious Objects that can give him contentment; they are like musick to a sad heart; he desires as Absalom, to see the Kings face.
2. A lamenting after the Lord. 'Tis the saddest day with him when the Sun of righteousness is eclipsed; a child of God can better bear the worlds stroke than Gods absence; he is even melted into tears, the clouds of desertion produce spiritual rain; and whence is this weeping but from love?
2. A lamenting after the Lord. 'Tis the saddest day with him when the Sun of righteousnesse is eclipsed; a child of God can better bear the worlds stroak than Gods absence; he is even melted into tears, the clouds of desertion produce spiritual rain; and whence is this weeping but from love?