A96093:363
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.
Hi sunt qui trepidant, & ad omnia fulgura pallent,1 Cum tonat exanimes, primo quoque murmure coelum —
- 1Hor.
But spiritual comforts are pure, they are not muddied with guilt, nor mixed with fear, they are the pure wine of the Spirit; what the Mourner feels is joy, and nothing but joy.
3. These comforts God gives his Mourners, are sweet. Eccles. 12.7. Truly the light is sweet; so is the light of Gods countenance: How sweet are those comforts which bring the Comforter along with them? John 14.16. Therefore the love of God shed into the heart, is said to be better than wine, Cant. 1.2. Wine pleaseth the palate, but the love of God cheers the conscience; the lips of Christ drop sweet smelling myrrh, Cant. 5.13. The comforts God gives are a Christians Music, they are the golden Pot and the Manna; the Nectar and Ambrosia of a Christian; they are the Saints Festival, their banqueting stuff; so sweet are these Divine comforts, ⟨p. 116⟩that the Church had her [Greek or Hebrew], fainting fits for want of them,