A96093:1681
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. By the Brazen Serpent, Numb. 21.9. Those who were stung, were cured by looking on the Brazen Serpent; so when the soul is stung by the old Serpent, it is cured by that healing under Christs wings.
2. Christ is resembled by the good Samaritan. Luke 10.33, 34. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among Thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead; but a certain Samaritan as he journeyed, came where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring ⟨p. 487⟩in wine and oil, &c. We have wounded our selves by sin, and the wound had been incurable, had not Christ that good Samaritan, poured in wine and oil.
2. Christ is resembled by the good Samaritan. Luke 10.33, 34. A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among Thieves, which stripped him of his rayment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead; but a certain Samaritan as he journyed, came where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring ⟨p. 487⟩in wine and oyle, &c. We have wounded our selves by sin, and the wound had been incurable, had not Christ that good Samaritan, poured in wine and oyle.