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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.
SECT. 2.
Showing the mourners comforts hereafter.
2. COMFORTS HEREAFTER. 1They shall be comforted. Though in this life some interviews and love-tokens pass between God and the mourner, yet the great comforts are kept in reversion; in Gods presence is fullness of joy; There is a time coming (the day-star is ready to appear) when the Saints shall bathe themselves in the river of life, when they shall never see a wrinkle on Gods brow more; but his face shall shine, his lips drop honey, his arms sweetly embrace them. The Saints shall have a springtide of joy, and it shall never be low-water; the Saints shall at that day put off their mourning, and exchange their sables for white robes: Then shall the winter be past, the rain of tears be over and gone*; the flowers of joy shall appear; and after the weeping of the Dove, the time of the singing of birds shall come. This is the great consolation, the Jubilee of the blessed which shall never expire; in this life the people of God taste of joy, but in heaven the full vessels shall be broached; There is a river in the midst of the heavenly Paradise, which hath a fountain to feed it, Psal. 36.8 9.
2. COMFORTS HEREAFTER. 1They shall be comforted. Though in this life some interviews and love-tokens passe between God and the mourner, yet the great comforts are kept in reversion; in Gods presence is fulnes of joy; There is a time coming (the day-star is ready to appear) when the Saints shall bathe themselves in the river of life, when they shall never see a wrinkle on Gods brow more; but his face shall shine, his lips drop hony, his arms sweetly embrace them. The Saints shall have a springtyde of joy, and it shall never be low-water; the Saints shall at that day put off their mourning, and exchange their sables for white robes: Then shall the winter be past, the rain of tears be over and gone