A96093:1629
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, Sickness is caught sometimes through superfluity and intemperance. Excess produceth sickness. When our first parents lost the golden bridle of temperance, and did eat of the forbidden tree, they, and all their posterity surfeited on it, and took a sickness. The Tree of Knowledge had sickness and death under the leaves; it was fair to the eye, Gen. 3.6. but poison to the taste; we all grew desperately sick by eating of this tree. Adams intemperance hath brought us to fasting and weeping; and besides that disease at first by propagation, we have added to it by actual perpetration. We have increased our sickness, therefore sinners are said to wax worse and worse, 2 Tim. 3.13.
Secondly, Sicknesse is caught sometimes through superfluity and intemperance. Excesse produceth sicknesse. When our first parents lost the golden bridle of temperance, and did eate of the forbidden tree, they, and all their posterity surfeited on it, and took a sicknesse. The Tree of Knowledge had sicknesse and death under the leaves; it was fair to the eye, Gen. 3.6. but poyson to the taste; we all grew desperately sick by eating of this tree. Adams intemperance hath brought us to fasting and weeping; and besides that disease at first by propagation, we have added to it by actual perpetration. We have encreased our sicknesse, therefore sinners are said to wax worse and worse, 2 Tim. 3.13.
2. Sin may be resembled to sickness for the nature of it. As, 1. Sickness is of a spreading nature, it spreads all over the body, it works into every part, the head, stomach, it disorders the whole body. So sin doth not rest in one part, but spreads into all the faculties of the soul, and members of the body.