A96093:1653
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.
2. If sin be a soul-disease, and the most damnable Branch. 2 disease, let us be afraid of it. Had we diseases in our bodies, an ulcer in the lungs, or hectic fever, we would fear lest they should bring death; oh fear sin-sickness, lest it bring the second death. Thou who art a Drunkard or a Swearer, tremble at thy soul-maladies. I wonder to see sinners like the Leviathan, made without fear. Why do not men fear sin? why do they not shake with this disease? surely the reason is
2. If sin be a soul-disease, and the most damnable Branch. 2 disease, let us be afraid of it. Had we diseases in our bodies, an ulcer in the lungs, or hectick feaver, we would fear lest they should bring death; oh fear sin-sickness, lest it bring the second death. Thou who art a Drunkard or a Swearer, tremble at thy soul-maladies. I wonder to see sinners like the Leviathan, made without fear. Why do not men fear sin? why do they not shake with this disease? surely the reason is
1. Stupidity; as they have the Fever of sin, so withal a Lethargy. 1 Tim. 4 2. Having their conscience seared with an hot iron. He that hath an unbelieving heart, and a seared conscience, you may ring out the Bell, that mans case is desperate.
1. Stupidity; as they have the Feaver of sin, so withall a Lethargy. 1 Tim. 4 2. Having their conscience sear'd with an hot iron. He that hath an unbelieving heart, and a sear'd conscience, you may ring out the Bell, that mans case is desperate.