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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.
CHAP. XVII.
The blessed privilege of seeing God explained.
The blessed priviledge of seeing God explained.
THESE words are linked to the former, and they are a great incentive to heart-purity; the pure heart shall see the pure God. There is a double-sight which the Saints have of God.
1. In this life; that is spiritually, by the eye of faith. Faith sees Gods glorious Attributes in the glass of his Word; faith beholds him showing forth himself through the Lattice of his Ordinances. Thus Moses did see him who was invisible, Hebr. 11.27. Believers see Gods glory as it were veiled over, they behold his back-parts, Exod. 23.33.
1. In this life; that is spiritually, by the eye of faith. Faith sees Gods glorious Attributes in the glass of his Word; faith beholds him shewing forth himself through the Lattice of his Ordinances. Thus Moses did see him who was invisible,