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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.
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,*! Plague, Gout, Stone, Fever. 1 Cor. 11.29, 30. He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself; for this cause many are weak and sickly among you.
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 fetch'd 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,