A96093:2021
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.
To speak then of the Object of a Christians hope, set down here Specifically, [Greek or Hebrew]: The glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour. There is a threefold Epiphany, or appearing of Christ.
To speak then of the Object of a Christians hope, set down here Specifically, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: The glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour. There is a threefold Epiphany, or appearing of Christ.
1. There is an appearing of Christ to us; as when he was Incarnate: Isa. 9.6. To us a Child is born. This was a happy appearing when this morning Star appeared, then salvation appeared to mankind; when Christ took flesh, he did marry our humane nature to the divine nature. The Virgins womb was the place consecrated for the tying that knot: Great is this Mystery, God manifest in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3.16. 'Tis such an aenigma as the Angels adore, 1 Pet 1.12. God said, the man is become as one of us, Gen. 3.22. but now we may say, God himself ⟨p. 580⟩is become as one of us; he made [Greek or Hebrew], in the likeness of men▪ Phil. 2.7. This was Christs first appearing.
1. There is an appearing of Christ to us; as when he was Incarnate: Isa. 9.6. To us a Child is born. This was a happy appearing when this morning Star appeared, then salvation appeared to mankind; when Christ took flesh, he did marry our humane nature to the divine nature. The Virgins womb was the place consecrated for the tying that knot: Great is this Mystery, God manifest in the flesh,