A96093:1481
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. The creature is nothing to a man that hath heaven in his eye; when Saint Paul had seen that light shining from heaven, surpassing the glory of the Sun, Acts 26.13. though his eyes were open, he saw no man, ⟨p. 426⟩Acts 9.8. so he that hath the glory of heaven in his eye, is blind to the world; he sees nothing in it to allure him, or make him willing to stay here.
2. The creature is nothing to a man that hath heaven in his eye; when Saint Paul had seen that light shining from heaven, surpassing the glory of the Sun, Acts 26.13. though his eyes were open, he saw no man, ⟨p. 426⟩Acts 9.8. so he that hath the glory of heaven in his eye, is blinde to the world; he sees nothing in it to allure him, or make him willing to stay here.
3. The creature is nothing to one that is dying; a man at the hour of death is most serious, and is able to give the truest verdict of things; now at such a time the world is nothing, 'tis in an Eclipse, the sorrow of it is real, but the joy imaginary. Oh then what a vast difference is there between Christ and the creature! Christ is all in all, and the creature nothing at all; yet how many damn their souls for nothing?
3. The creature is nothing to one that is dying; a man at the houre of death is most serious, and is able to give the truest verdict of things; now at such a time the world is nothing, 'tis in an Eclipse, the sorrow of it is real, but the joy imaginary. Oh then what a vast difference is there between Christ and the creature! Christ is all in all, and the creature nothing at all; yet how many damn their souls for nothing?