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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.
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 ⟨p. 492⟩them, but Christ refuseth such Patients as make use of him only for a shift; Thou that scornest Christ in time of health, Christ may despise thee in the time of sickness*.
3. All are not healed, because they do not look out Answ. 3 after a Physitian. If they have any bodily distemper upon them, they presently send to the Physitian; their souls are sick, but mind not their Physitian 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 Physitians have given them over, and there is no hope of life, then they cry to Christ to save ⟨p. 492⟩them, but Christ refuseth such Patients as make use of him only for a shift; Thou that scornest Christ in time of health, Christ may despise thee in the time of sickness*.
- *Medicum spernens sanari nequit. Bern.