A96093:1674
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.
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 ⟨p. 485⟩for the Physician, and then for the Minister; which shows they are more desirous and careful for the recovery of their bodies, than their souls; but if soul-diseases are more dangerous and deadly, then we should prefer the spiritual cure before the bodily; heal my soul, for I have sinned; let us consider,
Branch. 6 6. If sin be a soul-sicknesse, then labour to get this disease healed; if a man had a disease in his body, a Plu•i•ie, 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 Physitians, 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 Physitian; but the Elders, that is, the Ministers, Physitians are to be consulted in their due place, but not in the first place. Most men send first