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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.
5. The Saints are already blessed, because they have Primitias, the first fruits of blessedness here: We read of the earnest of the Spirit, and the seal, 2 Cor. 1.22. and the first fruits, Rom. 8.23. Heaven is already begun in a believer. Rom. 14.17. The Kingdom of God is peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. This Kingdom is in a believers heart: Luk. 17.21. The people of God have a prelibation, and taste of blessedness here. As Israel tasted a bunch of grapes before they were actually possessed of Canaan: So the children of God have those secret incomes of the Spirit, those smiles of Christs face, those kisses of his lips, those love-tokens that are as bunches of grapes, and they think themselves sometimes in heaven. Paul was let down in a basket, Acts 9.25. Oftentimes the Comforter is let down to the soul in an Ordinance, and now the soul is in the Suburbs of Jerusalem above; a Christian sees heaven by faith, and tastes it by joy, and what is this but blessedness?
5. The Saints are already blessed, because they have Primitias, the first fruits of blessedness here: We read of the earnest of the Spirit, and the seal, 2 Cor. 1.22. and the first fruits, Rom. 8.23. Heaven is already begun in a believer. Rom. 14.17. The Kingdome of God is peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. This Kingdome is in a believers heart: Luk. 17.21. The people of God have a prelibation, and taste of blessedness here. As Israel tasted a bunch of grapes before they were actually possessed of Canaan: So the children of God have those secret incomes of the Spirit, those smiles of Christs face, those kisses of his lips, those love-tokens that are as bunches of grapes, and they think themselves sometimes in heaven. Paul was let down in a basket,