A96093:1660
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.
5. If sin be a soul-disease, and worse than any other, Branch. 5 then labour to be sensible of this disease. There are few who are sensible of their soul-sickness; they think they are well, and ail nothing; they are whole and need not the Physician. 'Tis a bad Symptom to hear a sick dying man say he is well. The Church of Laodicea was a sick Patient, but, she thought she was well. Rev. 3.17. Thou sayest I am rich, and have need of nothing. Come to many a man and feel his pulse, ask him about the state of his soul, he will say, he hath a good heart, and doubts not but he shall be saved. What should be the reason that when men are so desperately sick in their souls, and ready to drop into hell, yet they conceit themselves in a very good condition!
5. If sin be a soul-disease, and worse than any other, Branch. 5 then labour to be sensible of this disease. There are few who are sensible of their soul-sicknesse; they think they are well, and ayle nothing; they are whole and need not the Physitian. 'Tis a bad Symptom to hear a sick dying man say he is well. The Church of Laodicea was a sick Patient, but, she thought she was well. Rev. 3.17. Thou sayest I am rich, and have need of nothing. Come to many a man and feele his pulse, ask him about the state of his soul, he will say, he hath a good heart, and doubts not but he shall be saved. What should be the reason that when men are so desperately sick in their souls, and ready to drop into hell, yet they conceit themselves in a very good condition!
1. There is a spiritual cataract upon their eye, they see not their soars. Laodicea thought her self rich, because she was blind, Rev. 3.17. The god of the world blinds mens eyes, that they can neither see their disease, nor their Physician. Many bless God their estate is good, ⟨p. 482⟩