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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. 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⟩understanding or the will. Aquinas saith, Happiness consists in the intellectual part, the bare seeing of God. Scotus saith, Happiness is an act of the will, the enjoying of God; but certainly true blessedness comprehends both*; it lies partly in the understanding, by seeing the glory of God richly displayed; and partly in the will, by a sweet delicious taste of it, and acquiescence of the soul in it; we shall so see God as to love him*, and so love him as to be filled with him; the seeing of God implies fruition. Matth. 25.21. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord; not only behold it, but* enter into it. Psal. 36.9. In thy light we shall see light, there is vision. Psal. 16. ult. At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore, there is fruition. So great is the joy which flows from the sight of God, as will make the Saints break forth into triumphant Praises and Hallelujahs.
- *Illi acu rem tangunt, qui in visione & amore Dei simul consistere volunt beatitudinem. Dr. Arrows.
- *[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- *Non tantum aderit gloria, sed incrit. Bern.