A96093:1641
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.
4. Sickness takes away the taste; a sick man doth not taste that sweetness in his meat; so the sinner by reason of soul-sickness, hath lost his taste to spiritual things. The Word of God is pabulum animae, it is bread to strengthen, wine to comfort; but the sinner tastes no sweetness in the Word. A child of God who is spiritualized by grace, tastes a savouriness in Ordinances, the promise drops as an honey-comb, Psal. 19.10. but a natural man is sick; and his taste is gone; since the tasting of the forbidden Tree, he hath lost his taste.
4. Sickness takes away the taste; a sick man doth not taste that sweetness in his meat; so the sinner by reason of soul-sickness, hath lost his taste to spiritual things. The Word of God is pabulum animae, it is bread to strengthen, wine to comfort; but the sinner tastes no sweetness in the Word. A childe of God who is spiritualized by grace, tastes a savouriness in Ordinances, the promise drops as an honey-comb, Psal. 19.10. but a natural man is sick; and his taste is gone; since the tasting of the forbidden Tree, he hath lost his taste.
5. Sickness takes away the comfort of life; a sick person hath no joy of any thing; his life is a burden to him. So the sin-sick soul is void of all true comfort, and his laughter is but the pleasing dream of a sick man; he hath no true title to comfort, his sin is not pardoned, he may be in hell before night for any thing he knows.
6. Sickness ushers in death; it is the prologue to death; sickness is as it were the cutting of the Tree, and death is the falling of the Tree; so this disease of sin (if not cured in time) brings the second death.