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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.
In the words there are two general parts.
1. The dying Patients. 2. The healing Physician.
1. The dying Patients. 2. The healing Physitian.
1. The dying Patients, Them that are sick. Whence observe,
Doctr. 1. That sin is a soul-disease, Psal. 103.8. Isa. Doctr. 1 53.4. He hath born our griefs, in the Hebrew it is [Greek or Hebrew] our sicknesses. Man at first was created in an healthful temper, he had no sickness of soul, he ailed nothing; the soul had its [Greek or Hebrew], its perfect beauty and glory. The eye was clear, the heart pure, the affections tuned with the finger of God into a most sweet harmony. God made man upright, Eccles. 7.29. but Adam by eating the Apple fell sick, and had dyed for ever, had not God found out a way for his recovery. For the amplification of the Doctrine, there are three things to be considered.