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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.
5. This sight of God will be a satisfying sight: Cast three worlds into the heart, and they will not fill it; but the sight of God satisfies, Psal. 17.15. I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness. Solomon saith, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, Eccles. 1.8. But there the eye will be satisfied with seeing; God and nothing but God can satisfy. The Saints shall have their heads so full of knowledge, and their hearts so full of joy, that they shall find no want.
5. This sight of God will be a satisfying sight: Cast three worlds into the heart, and they will not fill it; but the sight of God satisfies, Psal. 17.15. I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness. Solomon saith, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, Eccles. 1.8. But there the eye will be satisfied with seeing; God and nothing but God can satisfie. The Saints shall have their heads so full of knowledge, and their hearts so full of joy, that they shall find no want.
6. It will be an unweariable sight: Let a man see the ra•est sight that is, he will soon be cloyed; when he comes into a Garden and sees delicious walks, fair Arbours, pleasant Flowers, within a little while he grows weary; but it is not so in heaven, there is no surfeit*; we shall never be weary of seeing God; for the Divine Essence being infinite, there shall be every moment new and fresh delights springing forth from God into the glorified soul; the soul shall not so desire God, but it shall still be full; nor shall it be ⟨p. 264⟩