A96093:1662
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. 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*.1
2. Men that are sick think themselves well, from the haughtinesse of their spirits. Alexander thought himself awhile to be the son of Jupiter, and no lesse 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 poysoned, he runs to the herb, (or rather weed) of his own righteousnesse to cure him*.1
3. Men that are sick, conceit themselves well, through self-love. He that loves another, will not credit any evil report of him. Men are [Greek or Hebrew], self-lovers, 2 Tim, 3.2. Every man is a Dove in his own eye, therefore doth not suspect himself of any disease; he will rather question the Scriptures verity, than his own malady.
3. Men that are sick, conceit themselves well, through self-love. He that loves another, will not credit any evil report of him. Men are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, self-lovers, 2 Tim, 3.2. Every man is a Dove in his own eye, therefore doth not suspect himself of any disease; he will rather question the Scriptures verity, than his own malady.