A96093:1680
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. That Christ is a Physician; it is one of his titles, [Greek or Hebrew] Exod. 15.26. I am the Lord that healeth thee. He is a Physician for the body; he anointed the blind, cleansed the Lepers, healed the sick, raised the dead, Matth. 8.16. He it is that puts virtue into physic, and makes it healing; and he is a Physician for the soul. Psal. 147.3. He healeth the broken in heart. We are all as so many impotent, diseased persons; one man hath a Fever, another hath a dead Palsy, another hath a bloody issue, he is under the power of some hereditary corruption; now Christ is a soul-physician, he healeth these diseases*; therefore in Scripture the Lord Jesus to set forth his healing virtue, is resembled
1. That Christ is a Physitian; it is one of his titles, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Exod. 15.26. I am the Lord that healeth thee. He is a Physitian for the body; he anointed the blinde, cleansed the Lepers, healed the sick, raised the dead, Matth. 8.16. He it is that puts vertue into physick, and makes it healing; and he is a Physitian for the soul. Psal. 147.3. He healeth the broken in heart. We are all as so many impotent, diseased persons; one man hath a Feaver, another hath a dead Palsie, another hath a bloody issue, he is under the power of some hereditary corruption; now Christ is a soul-physitian, he healeth these diseases*; therefore in Scripture the Lord Jesus to set forth his healing vertue, is resembled
- *Medicus aegrotis Jesus. Bern.