A96093:1673
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.
Oh what an infinite mercy is it for a man to be made sensible of sin, and seeing himself sick, to cry out with David, 2 Sam. 12.13. I have sinned against the Lord. Were it not a mercy for a person that is distracted, to be restored to the use of his reason? so for him that is spiritually distempered, and in a lethargy, to come to himself, and see both his wound, and his remedy! Till the sinner be made sensible of his disease, the medicine of mercy doth not belong to him*.
- *Non moris ••t, membrum non percussum plaugere, & nondum suscepto ictu admovere manum, fovere unguento ubi non dolet, emplastrum adhibere ubi caesura non ost. B•rn. in Apologe•.
Branch. 6 6. If sin be a soul-sickness, then labour to get this disease healed; if a man had a disease in his body, a Pleurisy, or Cancer, he would use all means for a cure; the woman in the Gospel who had a bloody issue, spent her whole estate upon the Physicians, Luke 8.43. Be more earnest to have thy soul cured than thy body. Make Davids prayer, Psal. 41.4. Heal my soul, for I have sinned. Hast thou a consumptive body? rather pray to God to heal the Consumption in thy soul; go to God first for the cure of thy soul, James 5.14. Is any sick among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him; The Apostle doth not say, Let him call for the Physician; but the Elders, that is, the Ministers, [Greek or Hebrew] Physicians are to be consulted in their due place, but not in the first place. Most men send first