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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. What unspeakable comfort is this to a child of Use. 3 God, that upon a serious trial finds he hath a well-built hope,* when Christ shall appear,2 •t will be a glorious appearing to a believer; — Credula vitam — spes fovet. A Christian is like a rich heir that hath great Lands in Reversion; he hath much in hope. Alexander having given away almost all he had in Greece, and being asked ⟨p. 588⟩what he had left for himself, answered, Hope; his meaning was, he had hope to conquer more Kingdoms, as afterwards he did: So if a Christians outward comforts were taken away, and one should ask him what he had left, he might say, The Anchor of hope; he hath a confident hope of those eternal Mansions which Jesus Christ is gone to prepare for him, John 14.2. When Christ who is his life shall appear, then shall he also appear with him in glory, Col. 3.4. Oh what comfort is this, how may this lighten, and sweeten the cross? after the waters of Marah, comes the wine of Paradise; after a wet Spring, a joyful Harvest.
3. What unspeakable comfort is this to a child of Use. 3 God, that upon a serious trial finds he hath a well-built hope,* when Christ shall appear,2 •t will be a glorious appearing to a believer; — Credula vitam — spes fovet. A Christian is like a rich heir that hath great Lands in Reversion; he hath much in hope. Alexander having given away almost all he had in Greece, and being asked ⟨p. 588⟩what he had left for himself, answered, Hope; his meaning was, he had hope to conquer more Kingdoms, as afterwards he did: So if a Christians outward comforts were taken away, and one should ask him what he had left, he might say, The Anchor of hope; he hath a confident hope of those eternal Mansions which Jesus Christ is gone to prepare for him,