A96093:1620
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.
Secondly, Christ went in with sinners, not to join with them in their sins, but to heal them of their sins; to accuse Christ, was (as Austin saith) as if the Physician should be accused because he goes among them that are sick of the Plague; This groundless accusation Christ over-hears, and in the text gives these envious Pharisees a silencing answer, Th•y that are whole need not a Physician, but they that are sick. As if Christ had said, you ⟨p. 469⟩Pharisees think your selves righteous persons, you need no Saviour; but these poor Publicans are sick, and ready to die, and I come as a Physician to cure them; therefore be not angry at a work of mercy; though you will not be healed, yet do not hinder me from healing others. They that are whole need not a Physician, but they that are sick.
Secondly, Christ went in with sinners, not to joyn with them in their sins, but to heale them of their sins; to accuse Christ, was (as Austin saith) as if the Physitian should be accused because he goes among them that are sick of the Plague; This groundlesse accusation Christ over-hears, and in the text gives these envious Pharisees a silencing answer, Th•y that are whole need not a Physitian, but they that are sick. As if Christ had said, you ⟨p. 469⟩Pharisees think your selves righteous persons, you need no Saviour; but these poor Publicans are sick, and ready to die, and I come as a Physitian to cure them; therefore be not angry at a work of mercy; though you will not be healed, yet do not hinder me from healing others. They that are whole need not a Physitian, but they that are sick.
In the words there are two general parts.