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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. The third Ingredient into blessedness, is Plenty; ⟨p. 26⟩that which makes a man blessed, must not be too scanty; it is a full draught which quencheth the souls thirst; and where shall we find Plenty but in Deity? Psal. 36.8. Thou shalt make him drink of the River of thy pleasures, not Drops but Rivers. The soul baths it self, and is laid as it were a steeping in the water of life; the River of Paradise over-flows, and empties its silver streams into the souls of the blessed.
4. In true blessedness there must be Variety: Plenty without variety is apt to nauseate; in God there is [Greek or Hebrew] all fullness, Col. 1.19. What can the soul want, but it may be had in the chief good? God is bonum in quo omnia bona; he is a Sun, a Shield, a Portion, a Fountain, a Rock of Strength, an Horn of Salvation; In God there is a complication of all excellencies; there are every moment fresh beauties and delights springing from God.
4. In true blessedness there must be Variety: Plenty without variety is apt to nauseate; in God there is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 all fulness, Col. 1.19. What can the soul want, but it may be had in the chief good? God is bonum in quo omnia bona; he is a Sun, a Shield, a Portion, a Fountain, a Rock of Strength, an Horn of Salvation; In God there is a complication of all excellencies; there are every moment fresh beauties and delights springing from God.