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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.
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.
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 bosome 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.
Use 1 1. See here the misery of a wicked man, who hath all his hope in this life;1 he makes the wedge of gold his hope, he casts his Anchor downwards; he can have no hope of Christs appearing; he fears Christs appearing, he doth not hope for it; he is like a Prisoner that fears the Judges coming to the Bench. Christs appearing will be a dismal appearing to him; when Christ shall appear, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 1 Pet. 4.18. a wicked man is like a Mariner at Sea that hath no Anchor; like a man in a storm that hath no shelter; where is his hope when he shall come to die? It is with a sinner as it was with the old world when the flood came; the waters did arise higher and higher by degrees. First the waters came to the Valleys, but they encouraged themselves in the Hills; then the waters came to the Mountains; I, but there might be some Trees upon the Hills, and they would climb up to them; then the waters prevailed and rose to the top of the Trees, now they had nothing to trust to; all hopes of being saved were gone. So it is with a sinner, if one comfort be taken away, he hath another left; if a Relation be gone, he hath