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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.
1. In that long journey he took from heaven to earth.
2. In that he comes to his Patients without sending for. The sick send to their Physicians, and use many entreaties; here the Physician comes unsent for. Isa. 65.1. I am found of them that sought me not. He doth prevent us with mercy, he entreats us to be healed; if Christ had not first come to us, and with the good Samaritan poured in wine and oil, we must have dyed of our wounds.
2. In that he comes to his Patients without sending for. The sick send to their Physitians, and use many entreaties; here the Physitian comes unsent for. Isa. 65.1. I am found of them that sought me not. He doth prevent us with mercy, he entreats us to be healed; if Christ had not first come to us, and with the good Samaritan poured in wine and oyle, we must have dyed of our wounds.
3. This Physician lets himself blood to cure his Patient. Isa. 53.5. But he was wounded for our transgressions; per vulnera viscera; — through his wounds we may see his bowels.
3. This Physitian lets himself blood to cure his Patient. Isa. 53.5. But he was wounded for our transgressions; per vulnera viscera; — through his wounds we may see his bowels.