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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.
7. Christ is the most tender-hearted Physician. He hath ended his Passion, yet not his compassion. How doth he pity sick souls! He is not more full of skill than sympathy, Hos. 11.8. My heart is turned within me. Christ shows his compassion in that he doth proportion his physic to the strength of the Patient. Physic if it be too sharp for the constitution, endangers the life. ⟨p. 497⟩Christ gives such gentle physic as shall work kindly, and savingly. Though he will bruise sinners, yet he will not break the bruised reed. Oh the soundings of Christs bowels to poor souls that feel themselves heart-sick with sin! He holds their head and heart when they are fainting; he brings the cordials of his promises to keep the sick Patient from dying away. Christians, you perhaps may have hard thoughts of your Physician Christ, and think he is cruel, and intends to destroy you; but, O the workings of his bowels towards humble broken-hearted sinners! Psal. 147.3. He heals the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Every groan of the Patient goes to the heart of this Physician.
7. Christ is the most tender-hearted Physitian. He hath ended his Passion, yet not his compassion. How doth he pity sick souls! He is not more full of skill than sympathy, Hos. 11.8. My heart is turned within me. Christ shews his compassion in that he doth proportion his physick to the strength of the Patient. Physick if it be too sharp for the constitution, endangers the life. ⟨p. 497⟩Christ gives such gentle physick as shall work kindly, and savingly. Though he will bruise sinners, yet he will not break the bruised reed. Oh the soundings of Christs bowels to poor souls that feel themselves heart-sick with sin! He holds their head and heart when they are fainting; he brings the cordials of his promises to keep the sick Patient from dying away. Christians, you perhaps may have hard thoughts of your Physitian Christ, and think he is cruel, and intends to destroy you; but, O the workings of his bowels towards humble broken-hearted sinners!