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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. The godly mans Objection; I have had unfeigned Object. 2 desires after God, but are not filled.
Answ. 1. Thou mayst have a filling of grace, Answ. 1 though not of comfort; if God doth not fill thee with gladness, yet with goodness, Psal. 107.11. Look into thy heart, and see the distillations of the Spirit; the dew may fall, though the honey-comb doth not drop.
2. Wait a while, and thou shalt be filled; the Gospel is a spiritual Banquet, it feasts the soul with grace and comfort; none eat of this Banquet but such as wait at the Table. Isa. 25.6, 9. In this Mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a Feast of fat things, a Feast of wines on the Lees well refined; and it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him; we will be glad, and rejoice in his salvation. Spiritual mercies are not only worth desiring, but waiting for.
2. Wait a while, and thou shalt be filled; the Gospel is a spiritual Banquet, it feasts the soul with grace and comfort; none eat of this Banquet but such as wait at the Table. Isa. 25.6, 9. In this Mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a Feast of fat things, a Feast of wines on the Lees well refined; and it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him; we will be glad, and rejoyce in his salvation. Spiritual mercies are not only worth desiring, but waiting for.