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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. This Supper is great, in regard of the place where it shall be celebrated, in the Paradise of God, Rev. 2.7. It is a stately Palace; stately, 1. For its situation; 'tis in excelsis, of a very great height, Rev. 21.8. For its prospect: all sparkling beauties are there concentered; and the delight of the prospect, is propriety; that is the best prospect, where a man can see furthest on his own ground. 3. For its amplitude; this Royal Feast shall be kept in a most spacious Room, a Room infinitely greater than the whole firmament, one Star whereof (if we may believe Astronomers) is bigger than the whole earth; though there be such a multitude as no man can number, of all Nations, Kindreds, People, and Tongues, Revel. 7.9. yet the Table is long enough, and the Room spacious enough for all the Guests. Aulus Gellius in his 13th. Book, makes this to be one of those four things which are requisite to a Feast, locus electus, a fit place. The Empyrean heaven bespangled with light, arrayed with rich hangings, embroidered with glory, seated above all the visible orbs, is the place of the Marriage-supper; this doth infinitely transcend the most profound search; I am no more able to express it, than I can span the firmament, or weigh the earth in a pair of balances.
6. This Supper is great, in regard of the place where it shall be celebrated, in the Paradise of God, Rev. 2.7. It is a stately Palace; stately, 1. For its scituation; 'tis in excelsis, of a very great heighth, Rev. 21.8. For its prospect: all sparkling beauties are there concentred; and the delight of the prospect, is propriety; that is the best prospect, where a man can see furthest on his own ground. 3. For its amplitude; this Royal Feast shall be kept in a most spacious Room, a Room infinitely greater than the whole firmament, one Star whereof (if we may believe Astronomers) is bigger than the whole earth; though there be such a multitude as no man can number, of all Nations, Kindreds, People, and Tongues,