A96093:1656
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. If sin be a soul-distemper then account them your Branch. 3 best friends that would reclaim you from your sins. The Patient is thankful to the Physician that tells him of his disease, and useth means to recover him. When Ministers tell you in love of your sins, and would reclaim you, take it in good part; the worst they intend, is to cure you of your sickness. David was glad of an healing reproof, Psal. 141.5. Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a ⟨p. 480⟩kindness; and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head. Ministers are charged by virtue of their office to reprove, 2 Tim. 4.2. They must as well come with Corrosives as Lenitives*. Titus 1.13. Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. The word is [Greek or Hebrew], cuttingly; as a Chirurgeon searcheth a wound, and then lanceth, and cuts out the gangrened flesh; or as a Physician useth Leeches and Cupping-glasses, which put the Patient to pain, but it is to restore him to health; so must the Ministers of Christ rebuke sharply, that they may help to save their dying Patients. Who is angry with the Physician for prescribing a bitter potion? Why should any be angry with Christs Ministers for reproving, when in regard of their office they are Physicians, and in regard of their bowels they are fathers! but how few are they who will take a reproof kindly! Amos 5.10. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate. But why do not men love a reproof?
3. If sin be a soul-distemper then account them your Branch. 3 best friends that would reclaim you from your sins. The Patient is thankful to the Physitian that tells him of his disease, and useth means to recover him. When Ministers tell you in love of your sins, and would reclaim you, take it in good part; the worst they intend, is to cure you of your sickness. David was glad of an healing reproof,