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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. It will be a glorious appearing in regard of the Saints. Christ will appear to do three things.
1. Christ as a Judge will appear to acquit his people, and that is by pronouncing the sentence, Come ye blessed of my Father. The debt-book shall be crossed in the blood of the Lamb.
2. Christ as a Judge will appear to vindicate his people. The names of the godly many times lie buried in reproach; but at that day; they shall (as Bernard saith) ⟨p. 583⟩Fragrare unguentis optimis, Christ will give them a new name; he will call them his friends, his Spouse, the apple of his eye, their names shall flourish with honour, and give forth their perfume as the wine of Lebanon.
3. Christ as a Judge will appear to crown his people, when body and soul shall be reunited and perfected in glory. Christ will take his people into his sweet and everlasting embraces, he will lay them in his bosom he will set them upon his Throne, he will fill them with the Inebriating wine of his love to all eternity. And thus you see what is the Saints hope, namely the glorious appearing of Christ, when he shall appear as a Judge to acquit, vindicate, crown them.