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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
Appendix › Christs various fullness.Appendix › Christs various fulness.
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.
2. If Christ be all, it shows us what a vast disproportion Branch. 2 there is between Christ and the creature; there is as much difference as between ens and nihil; Christ is all in all, and the creature is nothing at all. Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thine eyes on that which is not? The creature is a non-entity; though it hath a physical existence, yet considered theologically, it is nothing; 'tis but a gilded shadow, a pleasant fancy; when Solomon had sifted out the finest flower, and distilled the spirits of all created excellency, here's the Result, ALL WAS VANITY, Eccles. 2.11. The Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] for Vain, signifies empty. — O quantum est in rebus inane? — We read the earth in the Creation was void, Gen. 1.2. [Greek or Hebrew] so are all earthly comforts void; they are void of that which we think is in them, they are void of satisfaction; therefore they are compared to wind, Hos. 12.1. A man can no more fill his heart with the world, than he can fill his belly with the air he draws in. Now the creature is said to be nothing in a three-fold sense.
2. If Christ be all, it shews us what a vast disproportion Branch. 2 there is between Christ and the creature; there is as much difference as between ens and nihil; Christ is all in all, and the creature is nothing at all. Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thine eyes on that which is not? The creature is a non-entity; though it hath a physical existence, yet considered theologically, it is nothing; 'tis but a gilded shadow, a pleasant fancy; when Solomon had sifted out the finest flowre, and distill'd the spirits of all created excellency, here's the Result, ALL WAS VANITY, Eccles. 2.11. The Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 for Vain, signifies empty. — O quantum est in rebus inane? — We read the earth in the Creation was void,