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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.
1. His Word is healing. Psal. 107.20. He sent his Word, and healed them. His Word in the mouth of his Ministers is healing; when the Spirit is wounded in desertion, Christ doth create the lips that speak peace, Isa. 57.19. The Word written is a Myrothecium, or Repository in which God hath laid up Sovereign oils and balsams to recover sick souls; and the Word preached is the pouring out of these oils, and applying them to the sick Patient. He sent his Word, and healed them. We look upon the Word as a weak thing, What is the breath of a man to save a soul? but the power of the Lord is present to heal, Luke 5.17. Christ makes use of his Word as an healing medicine; the Receipts which his Ministers prescribe, he himself applies; he makes his Word convincing, converting, comforting.
1. His Word is healing. Psal. 107.20. He sent his Word, and healed them. His Word in the mouth of his Ministers is healing; when the Spirit is wounded in desertion, Christ doth create the lips that speak peace, Isa. 57.19. The Word written is a Myrothecium, or Repository in which God hath laid up Soveraign oyles and balsomes to recover sick souls; and the Word preached is the pouring out of these oyles, and applying them to the sick Patient. He sent his Word, and healed them. We look upon the Word as a weak thing, What is the breath of a man to save a soul? but the power of the Lord is present to heal, Luke 5.17. Christ makes use of his Word as an healing medicine; the Receits which his Ministers prescribe, he himself applies; he makes his Word convincing, converting, comforting.