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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.
3. Sickness (at worst) doth but separate from the society of friends; but this disease of sin, if not cured, separates from the society of God and Angels. The Leper was to be shut out of the Camp; this leprosy of sin without the interposition of mercy, shuts men out of the Camp of heaven, Rev. 21.8. This is the misery of them that dye in their sins, they are allowed neither friend nor Physician to come at them, they are excluded Gods presence for ever, in whose presence is fullness of joy.
3. Sickness (at worst) doth but separate from the society of friends; but this disease of sin, if not cured, separates from the society of God and Angels. The Leper was to be shut out of the Camp; this leprosie of sin without the interposition of mercy, shuts men out of the Camp of heaven, Rev. 21.8. This is the misery of them that dye in their sins, they are allowed neither friend nor Physitian to come at them, they are excluded Gods presence for ever, in whose presence is fulness of joy.
Use 1 1. See into what a sad condition sin hath brought us; it hath made us desperately sick,1 nay, we dye away in Branch. 1 our sickness, till we are fetched again with the water of life. O how many sick bed-rid souls are there in the world! sick of pride, sick of lust; sin hath turned our Houses and Churches into Hospitals, they are full of sick persons. What Davids enemies said reproachfully of him, is true of every natural man. Psal. 41.8. An evil disease cleaveth fast unto him. He hath the plague of the heart, 1 Kings 8. And even those who are regenerate, are cured but in part, they have some grudgings of the disease, some ebullitions and stirrings of corruption; nay, sometimes this Kings Evil breaks forth to the scandal of Religion and from this sin-sickness ariseth all other diseases,