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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.
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.
2. All are not healed, because they love their sickness. Answ. 2 Psal. 52.3. Thou lovest evil; many men hug their disease. Augustine saith, before his conversion, he prayed against sin, but his heart whispered, Non adhuc Domine; — Not yet Lord; he was loth to leave his sin too soon; how many love their disease better than their Physician! while sin is loved, Christs medicines are loathed.
2. All are not healed, because they love their sickness. Answ. 2 Psal. 52.3. Thou lovest evil; many men hug their disease. Augustine saith, before his conversion, he prayed against sin, but his heart whispered, Non adhuc Domine; — Not yet Lord; he was loth to leave his sin too soon; how many love their disease better than their Physitian! while sin is loved, Christs medicines are loathed.
3. All are not healed, because they do not look out Answ. 3 after a Physician. If they have any bodily distemper upon them, they presently send to the Physician; their souls are sick, but mind not their Physician Christ. John 5.40. Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life. Christ takes it as an undervaluing of him that we will not send to him; some send for Christ when it is too late; when other Physicians have given them over, and there is no hope of life, then they cry to Christ to save