A96093:1626
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.
1. In what sense sin is resembled to sickness.
1. In what sence sin is resembled to sicknesse.
1. Sin may be compared to sickness for the manner of catching.
1. Sin may be compared to sicknesse for the manner of catching.
First, Sickness is caught often through carelessness; ⟨p. 470⟩some get cold by leaving off clothes. So when Adam grew careless of Gods command, and left off the garment of his innocency, he caught a sickness; he could stay no longer in the Garden, but lay bed-rid; his sin hath turned the world, which was a Paradise, into an Hospital.
First, Sicknesse is caught often through carelesnesse; ⟨p. 470⟩some get cold by leaving off cloaths. So when Adam grew carelesse of Gods command, and left off the garment of his innocency, he caught a sicknesse; he could stay no longer in the Garden, but lay bed-rid; his sinne hath turned the world, which was a Paradise, into an Hospital.