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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.
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, Hebr. 11.27. Believers see Gods glory as it were vailed over, they behold his back-parts, Exod. 23.33.
2. In the life to come; and this glorious sight of God is meant in the Text, [Greek or Hebrew], they shall see God: A pleasant prospect! this Divines call the beatifical vision*; at that day the Veil will be pulled off, and God will show himself in all his glory to the soul; as a King on a day of Coronation shows himself in all his Royalty and Magnificence: This sight of God will be the heaven of heaven; we shall indeed have a sight of Angels, and that will be sweet; but the quintessence of happiness, and the Diamond in the Ring will be this, we shall see God. If the Sun be absent, it is night for all the Stars. The Angels are called Stars,