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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.
3. Heart-purity is necessary in regard of the Angels; they are pure creatures: The Cherubims, which typified the Angels, were made of fine gold, to denote the purity of their Essence; no unholy thought enters into the Angels; therefore there must be purity of heart, that there may be some resemblance between us and them. What should unholy hearts do among those pure angelical spirits?
4. In regard of the Saints glorified. They are pure, being refined from all lees and dregs of sin. Their title is, spirits of just men made perfect, Heb. 12.23. Now what should profane spirits do among spirits made perfect? I tell you, if you who wallow in your sins, could come near ⟨p. 250⟩God and Angels, and spirits of men made perfect, and have a sight of their lustre, you would soon wish your selves out of their company; as a man that is dirty, and in his rags, if he should stand before the King and his Nobles, and see them glistering in their cloth of gold, and sparkling with their jewels, he would be ashamed of himself, and wish himself out of their presence.
4. In regard of the Saints glorified. They are pure, being refined from all lees and dregs of sin. Their title is, spirits of just men made perfect, Heb. 12.23. Now what should profane spirits do among spirits made perfect? I tell you, if you who wallow in your sins, could come near ⟨p. 250⟩God and Angels, and spirits of men made perfect, and have a sight of their lustre, you would soone wish your selves out of their company; as a man that is dirty, and in his rags, if he should stand before the King and his Nobles, and see them glistering in their cloth of gold, and sparkling with their jewels, he would be ashamed of himself, and wish himself out of their presence.