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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.
2. See here the mercy and bounty of God, that hath Infer. 2 prepared a Kingdom for his people; it is a favour that we poor vermiculi, worms, and no men*, should be suffered to live; but that worms should be made Kings, this is Divine bounty; 'tis mercy to pardon us, but it is rich mercy to crown us: Behold, what manner of love is this! Earthly Princes may bestow great gifts and donatives on their Subjects, but they keep the Kingdom to themselves; though Pharaoh advanced Joseph to honour, and gave him ⟨p. 60⟩a Ring from his finger, yet he kept the Kingdom to himself. Gen. 41.40. Only in the Throne I will be greater than thou; but God gives a Kingdom to his people, he sets them upon the Throne. How doth David admire the goodness of God in bestowing upon him a temporal Kingdom! 2 Sam. 7.18. Then went King David in, and sate before the Lord, and said, Who am I O Lord God! and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto! he wondered that God should take him from the sheep-fold, and set him on the Throne! that God should turn his shepherds staff into a Sceptre! O then how may the Saints admire the riches of grace, that God should give them a Kingdom, above all the Princes of the earth; nay, far above all heavens! God thinks nothing too good for his children. We many times think much of a tear, a prayer, or to sacrifice a sin for him; but he doth not think much to bestow a Kingdom upon us: How will the Saints read over the Lectures of free-grace in heaven, and Trumpet forth the praises of that God who hath crowned them with loving kindness!
2. See here the mercy and bounty of God, that hath Infer. 2 prepared a Kingdom for his people; it is a favour that we poor vermiculi, worms, and no men*, should be suffered to live; but that worms should be made Kings, this is Divine bounty; 'tis mercy to pardon us, but it is rich mercy to crown us: Behold, what manner of love is this! Earthly Princes may bestow great gifts and donatives on their Subjects, but they keep the Kingdom to themselves; though Pharaoh advanced Joseph to honour, and gave him