A96093:1707
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. Christ is the best Physician, because he cures the better part, the soul*; other Physicians can cure the Liver or Spleen, Christ cures the heart; they can cure the blood when it is tainted, Christ cures the conscience when it is defiled. Hebr. 9.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your conscience from dead works? Galen and Hippocrates might cure the stone in the Kidneys, but Christ cures the stone in the heart; he is the best Physician, which cures the more excellent part. The soul is immortal, angelical; man was made in the Image of God, Gen. 1.27. Not in regard of his body, but his soul. Now if the soul be [Greek or Hebrew], so divine and noble, then the cure of the soul doth far exceed the cure of the body.
2. Christ is the best Physitian, because he cures the better part, the soul*; other Physitians can cure the Liver or Splene, Christ cures the heart; they can cure the blood when it is tainted, Christ cures the conscience when it is defiled. Hebr. 9.14. How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your conscience from dead works? Galen and Hippocrates might cure the stone in the Kidneys, but Christ cures the stone in the heart; he is the best Physitian, which cures the more excellent part. The soul is immortal, angelical; man was made in the Image of God, Gen. 1.27. Not in regard of his body, but his soul. Now if the soul be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, so divine and noble, then the cure of the soul doth far exceed the cure of the body.
- *Christus medicus animarum. Aug.