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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. That the godly are in some sense already blessed:
1. That there is a blessedness in Reversion: The people of God meet with many knotty difficulties, and sinking discouragements in the way of Religion; their march is not only tedious, but dangerous, and their hearts are ready to despond: It will not be amiss therefore to set the Crown of blessedness before them, to animate their courage, and to inflame their zeal. How many Scriptures bring this Olive-branch in their mouth, the tidings of blessedness to believers! Matth. 24.46. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Mat. 25.34. Come ye blessed of my Father. Blessedness is the perfection of a rational creature; it is the whet-stone of a Christians industry; the height of his ambition; the flower of his joy; blessedness is the desire of all men. Aquinas calls it the ultimus finis; this is the White every man aims to hit; to this Centre all the lines are drawn.
1. That there is a blessedness in Reversion: The people of God meet with many knotty difficulties, and sinking discouragements in the way of Religion; their march is not only tedious, but dangerous, and their hearts are ready to despond: It will not be amiss therefore to set the Crown of blessedness before them, to animate their courage, and to inflame their zeal. How many Scriptures bring this Olive-branch in their mouth, the tydings of blessedness to believers! Matth. 24.46. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Mat. 25.34. Come ye blessed of my Father. Blessedness is the perfection of a rational creature; it is the whet-stone of a Christians industry; the heighth of his ambition; the flower of his joy; blessedness is the desire of all men. Aquinas calls it the ultimus finis; this is the White every man aims to hit; to this Center all the lines are drawn.