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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.
1. God the Father is love; Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world; that God should part with Christ out of his bosom, the Son of his love, and lay this jewel as it were to pawn for our salvation, oh unparalleled love! never was such love showed to the Angels.
1. God the Father is love; Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world; that God should part with Christ out of his bosome, the Son of his love, and lay this jewel as it were to pawn for our salvation, oh unparalleld love! never was such love showed to the Angels.
2. God the Son is love; how did Christ love his Spouse when he died for her! his sides dropped blood, his heart dropped love; such a vein of love was opened in him that our sins could not stench; love was the wing on ⟨p. 625⟩which Christ did fly into the Virgins womb. Christ incarnate, here was love covered over with flesh; and Christ on the Cross, here was a book of love laid open before us to read in. Per vulnera viscera —
2. God the Son is love; how did Christ love his Spouse when he died for her! his sides drop'd blood, his heart drop'd love; such a vein of love was opened in him that our sins could not stench; love was the wing on ⟨p. 625⟩which Christ did fly into the Virgins womb. Christ incarnate, hre was love covered over with flesh; and Christ on the Cross, here was a book of love laid open before us to read in. Per vulnera viscera —