A96093:1658
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. 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. THEY ARE MAD ON THEIR IDOLS. When sickness grows so violent that men lie raving, and are mad, they then quarrel with their Physitian, 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 Physitians; 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.
4. If sin be a soul-sickness, then do not feed this Branch. 4 disease; he that is wise, will avoid those things which will increase his disease; if he be feverish, he will avoid wine which would inflame the disease; if he have the stone, he will avoid salt meats; he will forbear a dish he loves, because it is bad for his disease; why should not men be as wise for their souls? Thou that hast a drunken lust, do not feed it with wine; thou that hast a malicious lust, do not feed it with revenge; thou that hast an unclean lust, make not provision for the flesh,