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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. Love is greater than Faith Respectu durationis, in regard of continuance; 1 Cor. 13.8. Charity never faileth; we shall lay down our body of flesh, and see God face to face; faith and hope shall be no more, but love shall remain: While we live here we have need of Faith, this is our Jacobs staff to walk with; 2 Cor. 5. We walk ⟨p. 623⟩by faith; but we shall set this staff shortly at heaven door, and love only shall enter within the veil*. So you have seen the sparkling of this Diamond, and thus doth the Apostle no less elegantly than divinely set forth the beauty and orient lustre of this grace.
2. Love is greater than Faith Respectu durationis, in regard of continuance; 1 Cor. 13.8. Charity never faileth; we shall lay down our body of flesh, and see God face to face; faith and hope shall be no more, but love shall remain: While we live here we have need of Faith, this is our Jacobs staff to walk with; 2 Cor. 5. We walk ⟨p. 623⟩by faith; but we shall set this staffe shortly at heaven door, and love only shall enter within the vail*. So you have seen the sparkling of this Diamond, and thus doth the Apostle no less elegantly than divinely set forth the beauty and orient lustre of this grace.
- *Chrys. in 1 Cor. Hom. 34.