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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. Christs wounds are healing. Isa. 55.3. With his stripes we are healed. Christ made a medicine of his own body and blood; the Physician dyed to cure the Patient*. The Pelican when her young ones are bitten by Serpents, feeds them with her own blood to recover them. Thus when we were bitten by the old Serpent, then Jesus Christ prescribes a Receipt of his own blood to heal and restore us. — Sanguis Christi salus Christiani.* — The blood of Christ being the blood of him who was God as well as man, had infinite merit to appease God, and infinite virtue to heal us: This, this is the balm of Gilead, that recovers a soul which is sick even to death. Balm as Naturalists say, is a juice which a little shrub (being cut with glass) doth weep out. This was anciently of very precious esteem, the favour of it was odoriferous, the virtue of it Sovereign; it would cure ulcers, and the stinging of Serpents*. This balm may be an emblem of Christs blood; it hath a most Sovereign virtue in it, it heals the ulcer of sin, the stinging of tentation, it merits for us justification, Rom. 5.9. O how precious is this balm of Gilead! by this blood we enter into heaven.
2. Christs wounds are healing. Isa. 55.3. With his stripes we are healed. Christ made a medicine of his own body and blood; the Physitian dyed to cure the Patient*. The Pelican when her young ones are bitten by Serpents, feeds them with her own blood to recover them. Thus when we were bitten by the old Serpent, then Jesus Christ prescribes a Receit of his own blood to heal and restore us. — Sanguis Christi salus Christiani.* — The blood of Christ being the blood of him who was God as well as man, had infinite merit to appease God, and infinite vertue to heal us: This, this is the balme of Gilead, that recovers a soul which is sick even to death. Balm as Naturalists say, is a juyce which a little shrub (being cut with glass) doth weep out. This was anciently of very precious esteem, the favour of it was odoriferous, the vertue of it Soveraign; it would cure ulcers, and the stinging of Serpents