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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.
SECT. 1.
Showing the true beauty of the soul.
Shewing the true beauty of the soul.
1. SEE here what is the beauty that sets off a soul in Use 1 Gods eye, viz. Purity of heart. 1Thou who art never so beautiful, art but a spiritual Leper till thou art pure Branch 1 in heart. God is in love with the pure heart, for he sees his own picture drawn there; Holiness is a beam of God, it is the Angels glory; They are pure virgin-spirits; take away purity from an Angel, and he is no more an Angel ⟨p. 228⟩but a Devil; thou who art pure in heart, hast the Angels glory shining in thee; thou hast the Embroidery and Workmanship of the Holy Ghost upon thee. The pure heart is Gods Paradise where he delights to walk, 'tis his lesser heaven; the Dove delights in the purest Air; the Holy Ghost, who descended in the likeness of a Dove, delights in the purest soul. God saith of the pure in heart, as of Sihon, Psal. 132.14. This is my rest for ever, here will I dwell. God loves the fairest complexion; the pure in heart is Christs Bride, decked and bespangled with the jewels of holiness.