A96093:1650
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.
Branch. 2 2. If sin be a soul-sickness, then how foolish are they that hide their sins; it is folly to hide a disease*! Job 31.33, 40. If I covered my transgression as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, let thistles grow instead ⟨p. 477⟩of wheat, &c. The wicked take more care to have sin covered, than cured; if they can but sin in private, and not be suspected, they think all is well; there is a curse belongs to him who puts sin in a secret place, Deutr. 27.15. The hiding and concealing a disease proves mortal. Prov. 28.13. He that covereth his sins, shall not prosper.
Branch. 2 2. If sin be a soul-sickness, then how foolish are they that hide their sins; it is folly to hide a disease*! Job 31.33, 40. If I covered my transgression as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosome, let thistles grow instead ⟨p. 477⟩of wheat, &c. The wicked take more care to have sin covered, than cured; if they can but sin in private, and not be suspected, they think all is well; there is a curse belongs to him who puts sin in a secret place, Deutr. 27.15. The hiding and concealing a disease proves mortal. Prov. 28.13. He that covereth his sins, shall not prosper.
- *Insipientium malus pudor ulcera celat.