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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.
9. Christ never fails of success. Physicians may have skill, but not always success; Patients often dye under their hands; but Christ never undertakes to heal any but he makes a certain cure. John 17.12. Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost. Judas was not given to Christ to be healed; but never any who was given to Christ did miscarry.
9. Christ never fails of success. Physitians may have skill, but not alwayes success; Patients often dye under their hands; but Christ never undertakes to heal any but he makes a certain cure. John 17.12. Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost. Judas was not given to Christ to be healed; but never any who was given to Christ did miscarry.
Quest. Quest. How shall I know that I am given to Christ to be cured?
Answ. Answ. If it be with thee as with a sick Patient, who sees himself dying without a Physician. Art thou undone without Christ? dost thou perceive thy self bleeding to death without the balm of Gilead? then thou art one of Christs sick Patients, and thou shalt never miscarry under his hands. How can any of those be lost whom Christ undertakes to cure? as he pours in the balsam of his blood, so he pours out the perfume of his prayers for them. John 17.11. Holy Father, keep through thy own Name those whom thou hast given me. Satan could never upbraid Christ with this, that any of his sick Patients were lost.