A96093:1675
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. Till we are cured, we are not fit to do God any service. A sick man cannot work; while the disease of sin is violent, we are not fit for any heavenly employment; we can neither work so. God,1 nor work out our own salvation. The Philosopher defines happiness the operation of the mind about virtue. To be working for God, is both the end of our life, and the perfection. Would we be active in our Sphere? let us labour to have our souls cured. So long as we are diseased with sin, we are lame and bed-rid, we are unfit for work. We read indeed of a sinners works, but they are dead works, Heb. 6.1.
1. Till we are cured, we are not fit to do God any service. A sick man cannot work; while the disease of sin is violent, we are not fit for any heavenly employment; we can neither work so. God,1 nor work out our own salvation. The Philosopher defines happiness the operation of the minde about vertue. To be working for God, is both the end of our life, and the perfection. Would we be active in our Sphere? let us labour to have our souls cured. So long as we are diseased with sin, we are lame and bed-rid, we are unfit for work. We read indeed of a sinners works, but they are dead works, Heb. 6.1.
- 1Opera•to animi secundum virtutem.
2. If we are not cured, we are cursed; if our disease abides on us, the wrath of God abides on us.