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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.
1. That God can fill the hungry soul. 2. Why he fills the hungry soul. 3. How he fills the hungry soul.
1. That God can fill the hungry soul; he is called a §1fountain. Psal. 36.9. With thee is the fountain of life: The Cistern may be empty, and cannot fill us: Creatures are oft broken Cisterns, Jer. 2.13. But the fountain is filling; God is a Fountain; if we bring the Vessels of our desires to this Fountain, he is able to fill them; the fullness in God is, 1. An infinite fullness; though he fill us, and the Angels which have larger capacities to receive, yet he hath never the less himself; as the Sun, though it shines, hath never the less light. Luke 8.46. I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. Though God lets virtue ⟨p. 174⟩go out of him, yet he hath never the less; the fullness of the creature is limited; it ariseth just to such a degree and proportion, but Gods fullness is infinite; as it hath its Resplendency, so its Redundancy, it knows neither bounds nor bottom.
1. That God can fill the hungry soul; he is called a §1fountain. Psal. 36.9. With thee is the fountain of life: The Cistern may be empty, and cannot fill us: Creatures are oft broken Cisterns, Jer. 2.13. But the fountain is filling; God is a Fountain; if we bring the Vessels of our desires to this Fountain, he is able to fill them; the fulness in God is, 1. An infinite fulness; though he fill us, and the Angels which have larger capacities to receive, yet he hath never the less himself; as the Sun, though it shines, hath never the less light.