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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. This sight of God will be a transforming sight: 1 John 3.2. We shall be like him: The Saints shall be changed into glory; as when the light springs into a dark Room, the Room may be said to be changed from what it was. The Saints shall so see God, as to be changed into his image. Psal. 17. ult. Here Gods people are blacked and sullied with infirmities, but in heaven they shall be as the Dove, covered with silver wings; they shall have some rays and beams of Gods glory shining in them; as a man that rolls himself in the Snow, is of a Snow-like whiteness; as the Chrystal by having the Sun shine on it, sparkles and looks like the Sun; so the Saints by beholding the ⟨p. 262⟩brightness of Gods glory, shall have a tincture of that glory upon them; not that they shall partake of Gods very essence; for as the iron in the fire becomes fire, yet remains iron still; so the Saints by beholding the lustre of Gods Majesty shall be glorious creatures, but yet creatures still.
3. This sight of God will be a transforming sight: 1 John 3.2. We shall be like him: The Saints shall be changed into glory; as when the light springs into a dark Room, the Room may be said to be changed from what it was. The Saints shall so see God, as to be changed into his image. Psal. 17. ult. Here Gods people are black'd and sullied with infirmities, but in heaven they shall be as the Dove, covered with silver wings; they shall have some rayes and beams of Gods glory shining in them; as a man that rowles himself in the Snow, is of a Snow-like whiteness; as the Chrystal by having the Sun shine on it, sparkles and looks like the Sun; so the Saints by beholding the ⟨p. 262⟩brightness of Gods glory, shall have a tincture of that glory upon them; not that they shall partake of Gods very essence; for as the iron in the fire becomes fire, yet remains iron still; so the Saints by beholding the lustre of Gods Majesty shall be glorious creatures, but yet creatures still.