A96093:1638
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.
5. The Conscience is diseased. Titus 1.15. Their mind and conscience is defiled. Conscience is either, 1. Erroneous, binding to that which is sinful, John 16.2. Acts 26.9. I verily thought with my self I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus. Conscience is an ignis fatuus leading out of the right way. Or, 2. Dumb, it will not tell men of sin; it is a silenced Preacher. Or, 3. Dead, Ephes. 4.19. Conscience is stupefied and senseless; the custom of sinning hath taken away the sense of sinning. Thus the sickness of sin hath gone over the whole soul, like that cloud which over-spread the face of the heavens, 1 Kings 18.45.
5. The Conscience is diseased. Titus 1.15. Their minde and conscience is defiled. Conscience is either, 1. Erroneous, binding to that which is sinful, John 16.2. Acts 26.9. I verily thought with my self I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus. Conscience is an ignis fatuus leading out of the right way. Or, 2. Dumb, it will not tell men of sin; it is a silenced Preacher. Or, 3. Dead, Ephes. 4.19. Conscience is stupified and sencelesse; the custome of sinning hath taken away the sence of sinning. Thus the sicknesse of sin hath gone over the whole soul, like that cloud which over-spread the face of the heavens, 1 Kings 18.45.