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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.
5. Christ is the most cheap Physician; sickness is not only a consumption to the body, but the purse, Luke 8.43. Physicians fees are chargeable, but Jesus Christ gives us our physic freely,1 he takes no fee, Isa. 55.1. Come without money and without price. He desires us to bring nothing to him, but broken hearts; and when he hath cured us he desires us to bestow nothing upon him, but our love; and one would think that were very reasonable.
5. Christ is the most cheap Physitian; sicknesse is not only a consumption to the body, but the purse, Luke 8.43. Physitians fees are chargable, but Jesus Christ gives us our physick freely,1 he takes no fee, Isa. 55.1. Come without money and without price. He desires us to bring nothing to him, but broken hearts; and when he hath cured us he desires us to bestow nothing upon him, but our love; and one would think that were very reasonable.
- 1Medicipecuniis, Christus autem precibus placatur.
6. Christ heals with more ease than any other; other Physicians apply pills, potions, bleeding, Christ cures with more facility, with a word; Christ made the Devil go out with a word speaking, Mark 9.25. So when the soul is spiritual possessed, Christ can with a word heal, nay, he can cure with a look. When Peter had fallen into a relapse, Christ looked on Peter, and he wept. Christs look melted Peter into repentance; it was an healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul, he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God,