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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.
1. The body may be diseased, and the conscience quiet. Isa. 33.24. The Inhabitant of the Land shall not say I am sick. He should scarce feel his sickness, because sin was pardoned; but when the soul is sick of any reigning lust, the conscience is troubled. Isa. 57. ult. There is no peace to the wicked, saith my God. When Spira had abjured his former faith, he was put IN LITTLE EASE, his conscience burned as hell, and no spiritual physic that Divines did apply, could ever allay that inflammation.
1. The body may be diseased, and the conscience quiet. Isa. 33.24. The Inhabitant of the Land shall not say I am sick. He should scarce feel his sickness, because sin was pardoned; but when the soul is sick of any reigning lust, the conscience is troubled. Isa. 57. ult. There is no peace to the wicked, saith my God. When Spira had abjured his former faith, he was put IN LITTLE EASE, his conscience burned as hell, and no spiritual physick that Divines did apply, could ever allay that inflammation.
2. A man may have bodily diseases, yet God may love him. Asa was diseased in his feet, 2 Kings 15.23. He had the Gout, yet a Favourite with God. Gods hand may go out against a man, yet his heart may be towards him; diseases are the Arrows which God shoots; pestilence is called Gods Arrow, Psal. 91.5. This Arrow (as Gregory Nazianzene saith) may be shot from the hand of an indulgent father: But soul-diseases are symptoms of Gods anger; as he is an holy God, he cannot but hate sin, he beholds the proud afar off,