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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. This sight of God will be a transcendent sight, it will surpass in glory; such glittering beams shall sparkle ⟨p. 261⟩forth from the Lord Jesus, as shall infinitely amaze and delight the eyes of the beholders. Imagine what a blessed sight it will be to see Christ wearing the Robe of our humane nature, and to see that nature sitting in glory above the Angels. If God be so beautiful here in his Ordinances, Word, Prayer, Sacraments; if there be such excellency in him when we see him by the eye of faith through the prospective glass of a promise, O what will it be when we shall see him face to face! when Christ was transfigured on the Mount, he was full of glory, Matth. 17.2. If his transfiguration were so glorious, what will his inauguration be? what a glorious time will it be, when as it was said of Mordecai, we shall see him in the presence of his Father, arrayed in Royal apparel, and with a great Crown of gold upon his head, Esth. 8.15.*. There will be glory beyond Hyperbole; if the Sun were ten thousand times brighter than it is, it could not so much as shadow out this glory; in the heavenly Horizon we shall behold beauty in its first magnitude and highest elevation; there we shall see the King in his glory*. All lights are but Eclipses, compared with that glorious Vision; Apelles pencil would blot, Angels tongues would but disparage it.
2. This sight of God will be a transcendent sight, it will surpass in glory; such glittering beams shall sparkle ⟨p. 261⟩forth from the Lord Jesus, as shall infinitely amaze and delight the eys of the beholders. Imagine what a blessed sight it will be to see Christ wearing the Robe of our humane nature, and to see that nature sitting in glory above the Angels. If God be so beautiful here in his Ordinances, Word, Prayer, Sacraments; if there be such excellency in him when we see him by the eye of faith through the prospective glass of a promise, O what will it be when we shall see him face to face! when Christ was transfigured on the Mount, he was full of glory,