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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.
9. It will be a speedy sight. There are some who deny that the soul is immediately after death admitted to the sight of God; but I shall make good this Assertion, that the Saints shall have an immediate transition and passage from death to glory; as soon as death hath closed their eyes, they shall see God; if the soul be not presently after death translated to the beatifical Vision, then what becomes of the soul in that juncture of time till the Resurrection?
9. It will be a speedy sight. There are some who deny that the soul is immediately after death admitted to the sight of God; but I shall make good this Assertion, that the Saints shall have an immediate transition and passage from death to glory; assoon as death hath closed their eyes, they shall see God; if the soul be not presently after death translated to the beatifical Vision, then what becomes of the soul in that juncture of time till the Resurrection?
1. Doth the soul go into torment? That cannot be; for the soul of a believer is a member of Christs body mystical; and if this soul should go to hell, then something of Christ should go to hell; a member of Christ might be for a time damned; but that is impossible.
2. Doth the soul sleep in the body as some drowsily imagine? How then shall we make good sense of that Scripture? 2 Cor. 5.8. We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. If the soul at death be absent from the body, then it cannot sleep in the body.