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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. Christ is the best Physician, for he causeth us to ⟨p. 495⟩feel our disease. The disease of sin though it be most damnable, yet least discernible; many a man is sin-sick, but the Devil hath given him such stupefying physic, that he sleeps the sleep of death, and all the thunders of the Word cannot awaken him; but the Lord Jesus this blessed Physician, awakes the soul out of its lethargy, and then it is in an hopeful way of recovery. The sailor was never so near a cure, as when he cried out, [Greek or Hebrew], Sirs, What must I do to be saved? Acts 16.30.
3. Christ is the best Physitian, for he causeth us to ⟨p. 495⟩feel our disease. The disease of sin though it be most damnable, yet least discernable; many a man is sin-sick, but the Divel hath given him such stupifying physick, that he sleeps the sleep of death, and all the thunders of the Word cannot awaken him; but the Lord Jesus this blessed Physitian, awakes the soul out of its lethargy, and then it is in an hopeful way of recovery. The saylor was never so near a cure, as when he cryed out, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Sirs, What must I do to be saved? Acts 16.30.
4. Christ shows more love to his Patients than any Physician §4besides; which appears five ways.
4. Christ shews more love to his Patients than any Physitian §4besides; which appears five wayes.