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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.
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.
1. In regard of his Call; God the Father called him to practice Physick, 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 Physitian; this was for our imitation; we are not to meddle in any matters without a call; that is acting out of our sphere.
2. Jesus Christ undertook this healing work, because of that need we were in of a Physician. Christ came to be our Physician, not because we deserved him, but because we needed him; not our merit, but our misery drew Christ from heaven; had not he come, we must of necessity have perished, and dyed of our wounds; our disease was not ordinary; it had seized on every part; it made us not only sick, but dead; and such Receipts were requisite as none but Christ could give.