A96093:1661
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. 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⟩not from the knowledge of their happiness, but from the ignorance of their danger; when Hamans face was covered, he was near execution. Oh pray with David, Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not the sleep of death, Psal. 13.3.
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 Physitian. Many blesse God their estate is good, ⟨p. 482⟩not from the knowledge of their happinesse, but from the ignorance of their danger; when Hamans face was covered, he was near execution. Oh pray with David, Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not the sleep of death, Psal. 13.3.
2. Men that are sick think themselves well, from the haughtiness of their spirits. Alexander thought himself awhile to be the son of Jupiter, and no less than a God; what an arrogant creature is man! though he be sick unto death, he thinks it too much a disparagement to acknowledge a disease; either he is not sick, or he can heal himself. If he be poisoned, he runs to the herb, (or rather weed) of his own righteousness to cure him*.