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The holy longing
The holy longing: or, The saints desire to be with Christ: delivered in a sermon at Al-hallows Lombard-street, Aug. 24. 1658. At the funeral of Mr. Jacob Stock. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The holy longing: or, The saints desire to be with Christ: delivered in a sermon at Al-hallows Lumbard-street, Aug. 24. 1658. At the funeral of Mr. Jacob Stock. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed by E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1659
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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. To be with Christ, implies, Intuition, 1 Joh. 3. 2. We shall see him as he is; here we see him as he is not; he is not mutable, he is ⟨p. 32⟩not mortal; in heaven we shall see him as he is. When Socrates was to die, he comforted himself with this, that he should go to the place where he should see Homer and Musaeus, and other Worthies who lived in the Age before him. A believer may comfort himself with this, that he shall see Christ; here we see him but through a glass darkly; but what will it be, when he shall be bespangled in all his Embroidery, and shall show forth himself in his full glory to his Saints!* He in Lucian said to his friend, I will show thee all the glory of Greece, when thou hast seen Solon, thou hast seen all: So he that sees Jesus Christ, sees all the glory of Paradise, Christ being the mirror of beauty, the quintessence of happiness.
1. To be with Christ, implies, Intuition, 1 Joh. 3. 2. We shall see him as he is; here we see him as he is not; he is not mutable, he is ⟨p. 32⟩not mortal; in heaven we shall see him as he is. When Socrates was to die, he comforted himself with this, that he should go to the place where he should see Homer and Musaeus, and other Worthies who lived in the Age before him. A believer may comfort himself with this, that he shall see Christ; here we see him but through a glass darkly; but what will it be, when he shall be bespangled in all his Embroidery, and shall shew forth himself in his full glory to his Saints!* He in Lucian said to his friend, I will shew thee all the glory of Greece, when thou hast seen Solon, thou hast seen all: So he that sees Jesus Christ, sees all the glory of Paradise, Christ being the mirrour of beauty, the quintessence of happinesse.
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