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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.
7. It will be a great Supper in regard of the continuance, it hath no end. Epicures have a short Feast, and a long reckoning; but those who shall sit down at the heavenly ⟨p. 129⟩Banquet, shall not rise from the Table; the cloth shall never be taken away, but they shall be always feeding upon those dulcia fercula, those sweet junkets and delicacies which are set before them: We read King Ahasuerus made a Feast for his Princes that lasted an hundred and fourscore days, Esther 1.4. But this blessed Feast reserved for the Saints, is for ever. Psal. 16.11. At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
7. It will be a great Supper in regard of the continuance, it hath no end. Epicures have a short Feast, and a long reckoning; but those who shall sit down at the heavenly ⟨p. 129⟩Banquet, shall not rise from the Table; the cloth shall never be taken away, but they shall be always feeding upon those dulcia fercula, those sweet junkets and delicacies which are set before them: We read King Ahashuerus made a Feast for his Princes that lasted an hundred and fourscore dayes, Esther 1.4. But this blessed Feast reserved for the Saints, is for ever. Psal. 16.11. At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Use. Consolation. Use. 1How may this be as Bezoar stone to keep the hearts of Gods people from fainting! they shall be comforted †; they shall sit with Christ upon the Throne,