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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.
5. The comforts reserved for the mourners, are filling comforts, Rom. 15.13. The God of hope fill you with joy, John 16.24. Ask that your joy may be full. When God pours in the joys of heaven, they fill the heart, and make it run over, 2 Cor. 7.4. I am exceeding joyful, the Greek word is [Greek or Hebrew], I overflow with joy, as a Cup that is filled with wine till it runs over. Outward comforts can no more fill the heart than a Triangle can fill a Circle. Spiritual joys are satisfying, Psal. 63.5. My heart shall be satisfied as with marrow, and I will praise thee with joyful lips. Davids heart was full, and the joy did break out at his lips. Psal. 4.7. Thou hast put gladness in my heart; worldly joys do put gladness into the face, 2 Cor. 5.12. they rejoice [Greek or Hebrew], in the face; but the Spirit of God puts gladness into the heart; divine joys are heart-joys, Zach. 10.7. John 16.22. Your heart shall rejoice; a believer doth [Greek or Hebrew], Luke 1.47. My spirit rejoiceth in God. And to show how filling these comforts are which are of an heavenly extraction, the Psalmist saith they create greater joy than when wine and cyle increase, Psal. 4. Wine and Oil may delight, but not satisfy; they have their vacuity and indigence; we may say, as Zach. 10.2. they comfort in vain; outward comforts do sooner cloy than cheer, and sooner weary than fill. Xerxes offered great rewards to him that could find out a new pleasure; but the comforts of the Spirit are satisfactory, they recruit the heart,