A96093:369
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.
7. The comforts which God gives his Mourners, are infinitely transporting and ravishing; so delightful are they and amazing, that they cause a jubilation; which as some of the Learned speak, is so great, that it cannot be expressed*; of all things joy is the most hard to be ⟨p. 119⟩deciphered; 'tis called laetitia inenarrabilis, joy unspeakable, 1 Pet. 1.8. You may sooner taste honey, then tell how sweet it is; the most pathetical words can no more set forth the comforts of the Spirit, then the most curious Pencil can draw the life and breath of a man; the Angels cannot express the joys they feel; some have been so overwhelmed with the sweet raptures of joy, that they have not been able to contain, but as Moses, have dyed* with a kiss from Gods mouth. Thus have we seen the glass oft breaking with the strength of the liquor put into it.
7. The comforts which God gives his Mourners, are infinitely transporting and ravishing; so delightful are they and amazing, that they cause a jubilation; which as some of the Learned speak, is so great, that it cannot be expressed*; of all things joy is the most hard to be ⟨p. 119⟩deciphered; 'tis called laetitia inenarrabilis, joy unspeakable, 1 Pet. 1.8. You may sooner taste honey, then tell how sweet it is; the most pathetical words can no more set forth the comforts of the Spirit, then the most curious Pensil can draw the life and breath of a man; the Angels cannot express the joyes they feel; some have been so overwhelmed with the sweet raptures of joy, that they have not been able to contain, but as Moses, have dyed* with a kiss from Gods mouth. Thus have we seen the glass oft breaking with the strength of the liquor put into it.