A96093:867
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.
1. Through Jesus Christ the dread and terror of the Divine Essence shall be taken away. Majesty shall appear in God to preserve reverence, but withal Majesty clothed with beauty, and tempered with sweetness to excite joy in the Saints. We shall see God as a friend, not as guilty Adam did, who was afraid, and hid himself*; but as Queen Esther looked upon King Ahasuerus, holding forth the golden Sceptre*; surely this sight of God will not be formidable, but comfortable.
1. Through Jesus Christ the dread and terror of the Divine Essence shall be taken away. Majesty shall appear in God to preserve reverence, but withal Majesty cloathed with beauty, and tempered with sweetness to excite joy in the Saints. We shall see God as a friend, not as guilty Adam did, who was afraid, and hid himself*; but as Queen Esther looked upon King Ahashuerus, holding forth the golden Scepter*; surely this sight of God will not be formidable, but comfortable.
2. The Saints shall not only have vision, but fruition; they shall so see God, as to enjoy him. Aquinas and Scotus dispute the case whether the formalis ratio, the very formality and essence of blessedness be an act of the ⟨p. 263⟩