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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.
6. The comforts God gives his Mourners in this life, are glorious comforts. 1 Pet. 1.8. Joy full of glory. 1. They are glorious, because they are a prelibation and fore-taste of that joy which we shall have in a glorified estate*. These comforts are an handsel and earnest of glory, they put us in heaven before our time. Ephes. 1.13, 14. Ye were sealed with that holy Spirit, which is an earnest of the inheritance; the earnest is part of the sum behind; so the comforts of the Spirit are the earnest; the cluster of grapes at Eshcol*, the first-fruits of the heavenly Canaan. 2. The joys of the Spirit are glorious, [Greek or Hebrew], in opposition to other joys, which compared with these, are inglorious and vile. A carnal mans joy, as it is aery and flashy, so it is sordid, he sucks nothing but dregs. Amos 6.13. Ye rejoice in a thing of naught. A carnal spirit rejoiceth, because he can say this house is his, this estate is his; but a gracious spirit rejoiceth because he can say this God is his. Psal. 48.14. For this God is our God for ever and ever. The ground of a Christians joy is glorious, he rejoiceth in that he is an heir of the promise; the joy of a godly man is made up of that which is the Angels joy, he triumphs in the light of Gods countenance; his joy is that which is Christs own joy; he rejoiceth in the mystical union which is begun here, and consummate in heaven: Thus the joy of the Saints is a joy full of glory.
6. The comforts God gives his Mourners in this life, are glorious comforts. 1 Pet. 1.8. Joy full of glory. 1. They are glorious, because they are a prelibation and fore-taste of that joy which we shall have in a glorified estate*. These comforts are an handsel and earnest of glory, they put us in heaven before our time.