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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.
4. Christs rod is healing, Isa. 27.9. Christ never wounds but to heal; the rod of affliction is to recover the sick Patient*. Davids bones were broken, that his soul might be healed. God useth affliction as the Chirurgeon doth his Lance, to let out the venom and corruption of the soul, and make way for a cure.
4. Christs rod is healing, Isa. 27.9. Christ never wounds but to heal; the rod of affliction is to recover the sick Patient*. Davids bones were broken, that his soul might be healed. God useth affliction as the Chyrurgion doth his Launce, to let out the venome and corruption of the soul, and make way for a cure.
- *Unguento utitur medicus, item ferro & igue. Bern.
Quest. But if Christ be a Physician, Quest. why are not all healed?
Quest. But if Christ be a Physitian, Quest. why are not all healed?
Answ. 1. Because all do not know they are sick; they Answ. 1 see not the sores and ulcers of their souls; and will Christ cure them who see no need of him? many ignorant people thank God they have good hearts; but that heart can no more be good which wants grace, than that body can be found which wants health.