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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.
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. Isa. 1.5, 6. The whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint; from the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores, &c.
2. Sin may be resembled to sicknesse for the nature of it. As, 1. Sicknesse 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. Isa. 1.5, 6. The whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint; from the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundnesse in it, but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores, &c.
1. Sin doth corrupt the understanding Gregory Nazianzene calls the understanding the lamp of reason,1 this lamp burns dim, Ephes. 4.18. Having their understanding darkened; Sin hath drawn a veil over the understanding, it hath cast a mist before our eyes, that we neither know God nor our selves; naturally we are only wise to do ⟨p. 471⟩evil, Jer. 4.21. Witty at sin, wise to damn our selves; the understanding is defiled,