A96093:1683
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.
3. Christ as a Physician, is resembled by the Trees of the Sanctuary. Ezek. 47.12. The fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof shall be for medicine. Thus the Lord Jesus that Tree of life in Paradise, hath a sanative virtue; he heals our pride, unbelief, &c. As he feeds our graces, so he heals our corruptions.
3. Christ as a Physitian, is resembled by the Trees of the Sanctuary. Ezek. 47.12. The fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof shall be for medicine. Thus the Lord Jesus that Tree of life in Paradise, hath a sanative vertue; he heals our pride, unbelief, &c. As he feeds our graces, so he heals our corruptions.
2. Why Christ is a Physician.
2. Why Christ is a Physitian.
1. In regard of his Call; God the Father called him to practice Physic, he anointed him to the work of healing. Luke 4.18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted. Christ came into the world as into an Hospital to heal sin-sick souls; this, though it were a glorious work, yet Christ would not undertake it, till he was commissionated by his father. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, he hath sent me. Christ was anointed and appointed to the work of a Physician; this was for our imitation; we are not to meddle in any matters without a call; that is acting out of our sphere.