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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.
The times we are cast into, being for the present sad and cloudy, it will not be amiss for the reviving the hearts of Gods people, to speak a little of these comforts which God reserves in heaven for his mourners. They shall be comforted.] The greatness of these celestial comforts is most fitly in Scripture expressed by the joy of a feast; mourning shall be turned into feasting; and it shall be a marriage-feast, which is usually kept with the greatest solemnity, Rev. 19.9. Blessed are they which are called into ⟨p. 126⟩the marriage-supper of the Lamb. Bullinger and Gregory the great, do understand this Supper of the Lamb, to be meant of the Saints supping with Christ in heaven*; men after hard labour go to supper: So when the Saints shall rest from their labours*, they shall sup with Christ in glory: Now to speak something of the last great Supper;
The times we are cast into, being for the present sad and cloudy, it will not be amisse for the reviving the hearts of Gods people, to speak a little of these comforts which God reserves in heaven for his mourners. They shall be comforted.] The greatnesse of these celestial comforts is most fitly in Scripture expressed by the joy of a feast; mourning shall be turned into feasting; and it shall be a marriage-feast, which is usually kept with the greatest solemnity, Rev. 19.9. Blessed are they which are called into ⟨p. 126⟩the marriage-supper of the Lamb. Bullinger and Gregory the great, do understand this Supper of the Lamb, to be meant of the Saints supping with Christ in heaven*; men after hard labour go to supper: So when the Saints shall rest from their labours*, they shall sup with Christ in glory: Now to speak something of the last great Supper;