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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.
1. Because they are in love with their sins; a strange thing that any should love their disease, but so it is, Prov. 1.22. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity? Sin is the poison of the soul, yet men love it; and he who loves his sin, hates a reproof.
1. Because they are in love with their sins; a strange thing that any should love their disease, but so it is, Prov. 1.22. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity? Sin is the poyson of the soul, yet men love it; and he who loves his sin, hates a reproof.
2. Sin possesseth men with a lunacy. Luke 15.7. People are mad in sin, Jeremiah 50.38. THEY ARE MAD ON THEIR IDOLS. When sickness grows so violent that men lie raving, and are mad, they then quarrel with their Physician, and say, he comes to kill them. So when sin is grown to an head, the disease turned to a frenzy, then men quarrel with those that tell them of their sins, and are ready to offer violence to their Physicians; it argues wisdom to receive a reproof. Prov. 9.8. Rebuke a wise man, ⟨p. 481⟩and he will love thee. A wise man had rather drink a sharp potion, than dye of his disease.
2. Sin possesseth men with a lunacy. Luke 15.7. People are mad in sinne, Jeremiah 50.38