A96093:395
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.
3. It will be a great Supper in regard of the company invited. Company adds to a Feast, and is of it self sauce to sharpen and provoke the appetite. Saints, Angels, ⟨p. 127⟩Archangels will be at this Supper; nay, Christ himself will be both Founder and Guest; the Scripture calls it an innumerable company *&c. Heb. 12. and that which makes the society sweeter, is, that there shall be perfect love at this Feast. The Motto shall be, cor unum, & via una, one heart, and one way, all the guests shall be linked together with the golden chain of charity.
3. It will be a great Supper in regard of the company invited. Company adds to a Feast, and is of it self sawce to sharpen and provoke the appetite. Saints, Angels, ⟨p. 127⟩Archangels will be at this Supper; nay, Christ himself will be both Founder and Guest; the Scripture calls it an innumerable company *&c. Heb. 12. and that which makes the society sweeter, is, that there shall be perfect love at this Feast. The Motto shall be, cor unum, & via una, one heart, and one way, all the guests shall be linked together with the golden chain of charity.
- *Cedit in solatium beatoram, qui eo sanè laetiores quo plures sunt.