A96093:1652
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 2 1. If sin be a soul-disease, let this serve to humble us;1 the Scripture often calls upon us for humility, 1 Pet. Branch. 1 5.5. Be ye clothed with humility; if any thing will humble, this consideration may; sin is a soul-disease; if a woman had a fair face, but a cancer in her breast, it would keep her from being proud of her beauty. So Christian, though thou art endued with knowledge and morality, which are fair to look upon, yet remember thou art diseased in thy soul, here is a cancer in the breast to humble thee; this certainly is one reason why God leaves sin in his own children; (for though sin be healed as to the guilt of it, yet not as to the stain of it) that the sight of their sores may make their Plumes of pride fall. There are two humbling sights; a sight of Gods glory, and a sight of our diseases. Uzziah the King had no cause to be proud; for though he had a Crown of gold on his head, he had the Leprosy on his fore-head, 2 Chron. 26.19. Though the Saints have their golden graces, yet they have their leprous spots; seeing sin hath made us vile, let it make us humble; seeing it hath taken away our beauty, let it take away our pride; if God, (saith Saint Austin*) did not spare the proud Angels, will he spare thee, who art putredo & vermis, but dust and rottenness? Oh look upon your boils and ulcers, and be humble. Christians are never more lovely in Gods eyes, than when they are loathsome in their ⟨p. 479⟩own; those sins which humble, shall never damn.
Use 2 1. If sin be a soul-disease, let this serve to humble us;1 the Scripture often calls upon us for humility, 1 Pet. Branch. 1 5.5. Be ye cloathed with humility; if any thing will humble, this consideration may; sin is a soul-disease; if a woman had a fair face, but a cancer in her breast, it would keep her from being proud of her beauty. So Christian, though thou art endued with knowledge and morality, which are fair to look upon, yet remember thou art diseased in thy soul, here is a cancer in the breast to humble thee; this certainly is one reason why God leaves sin in his own children; (for though sin be healed as to the guilt of it, yet not as to the stain of it) that the sight of their sores may make their Plumes of pride fall. There are two humbling sights; a sight of Gods glory, and a sight of our diseases. Uzziah the King had no cause to be proud; for though he had a Crown of gold on his head, he had the Leprosie on his fore-head,