A96093:1643
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.
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.
2. What the diseases of the soul are. Adam by breaking the box of original righteousness, hath filled the soul full of diseases; the body is not subject to so many diseases as the soul: I cannot reckon them all up. Psal. 19.12. Who can understand his errors*? Only I shall ⟨p. 475⟩name some of the worst of these diseases. Pride is the tympany of the soul, lust is the fever, error the gangrene, unbelief the plague of the heart, hypocrisy the scurvy, hardness of heart the stone, anger the frenzy, malice the Wolf in the breast, covetousness the dropsy, spiritual sloth the green sickness, apostasy the epilepsy; here are eleven soul-diseases, and when they come to the [Greek or Hebrew], the full height, they are dangerous, and most frequently prove mortal.
2. What the diseases of the soul are. Adam by breaking the box of original righteousness, hath filled the soul full of diseases; the body is not subject to so many diseases as the soul: I cannot reckon them all up. Psal. 19.12. Who can understand his errors*? Only I shall ⟨p. 475⟩name some of the worst of these diseases. Pride is the tympany of the soul, lust is the feaver, error the gangrene, unbelief the plague of the heart, hypocrisie the scurvy, hardness of heart the stone, anger the phrenzy, malice the Wolf in the breast, covetousness the dropsie, spiritual sloth the green sickness, apostasie the epilepsie; here are eleven soul-diseases, and when they come to the , the full heigth, they are dangerous, and most frequently prove mortal.