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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.
2. It is a constant fullness: The fullness of the creature is a mutable fullness, it ebbs and changeth. I could (saith one) have helped you, but now my Estate is low; the blossoms of the Fig-tree are soon blown off; creatures cannot do that for us which once they could; but God is a constant fullness. Psal. 102.27. Thou art the same: God can never be exhausted, his fullness is over-flowing and ever-flowing then surely it is good to draw nigh to God, Psal. 73.28. it is good bringing our Vessels to this spring-head, 'tis a never-failing goodness.
2. It is a constant fulness: The fulness of the creature is a mutable fulness, it ebbs and changeth. I could (saith one) have helped you, but now my Estate is low; the blossoms of the Fig-tree are soon blown off; creatures cannot do that for us which once they could; but God is a constant fulness. Psal. 102.27. Thou art the same: God can never be exhausted, his fulness is over-flowing and ever-flowing then surely it is good to draw nigh to God, Psal. 73.28. it is good bringing our Vessels to this spring-head, 'tis a never-failing goodness.
2. Why God doth fill the hungry soul. The Reasons are: