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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
Appendix › The trees of Righteousness blossoming, and bringing forth fruit.
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. They that do not bring forth good fruit, shall never taste of the fruits that grow in heaven. Heaven is the Garden of God, the Paradise of pleasure where the most rare delicious fruits grow; there are fruits that the Angels themselves delight to feed on; it may be said of those Celestial fruits, as Cant. 4.13. Thy Plants are an Orchard of Pomegranates with pleasant fruits, Camphire, and Spikenard, Saffron, Calamus, and Cinnamon, with all trees of Frankincense, Myrrh, and Aloes, with all the chief spices, or as it is in the Original, the head of the spices. How Aromatical and fragrant are those fruits which grow in the heavenly Jerusalem? now if you do not bring God your fruit, you shall never taste his fruit: you that do not bring forth the fruits of Righteousness, shall never taste the fruits of Paradise. Oh present Christ with your sweet spices, give him your Myrrh, Cant. 5.2. your spiced wine with the juice of the Pomegranate. Cant. 8.2. your Myrrh, that is, repentance; this, though it be bitter to you, it is sweet to Christ. Your spiced wine, and the juice of the Pomegranate; that is, love mixed with ⟨p. 603⟩obedience. Those who have no Myrrh, or wine to give God, shall never feed upon the Tree of life which bears several sorts of fruit, Rev. 22.2.
3. They that do not bring forth good fruit, shall never taste of the fruits that grow in heaven. Heaven is the Garden of God, the Paradise of pleasure where the most rare delicious fruits grow; there are fruits that the Angels themselves delight to feed on; it may be said of those Coelestial fruits, as Cant. 4.13. Thy Plants are an Orchard of Pomgranates with pleasant fruits, Camphire, and Spiknard, Saffron, Calamus, and Cinamon, with all trees of Frankincense, Myrrhe, and Aloes, with all the chief spices, or as it is in the Original, the head of the spices. How Aromatical and fragrant are those fruits which grow in the heavenly Jerusalem? now if you do not bring God your fruit, you shall never taste his fruit: you that do not bring forth the fruits of Righteousness, shall never taste the fruits of Paradise. Oh present Christ with your sweet spices, give him your Myrrhe,