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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.
10. Other Physicians can only cure them that are sick, but Christ cures them that are dead. Ephes. 2.1. You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. A sinner hath all the signs of death on him; the pulse of his affections doth not beat, he is without breath, he breaths not after holiness, he is dead; but Christ is a Physician for the dead; of every one whom Christ cures, it may be said, [Greek or Hebrew], He was dead, and is alive again, Luke 15.32.
10. Other Physitians can only cure them that are sick, but Christ cures them that are dead. Ephes. 2.1. You hath he quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins. A sinner hath all the signs of death on him; the pulse of his affections doth not beat, he is without breath, he breaths not after holiness, he is dead; but Christ is a Physitian for the dead; of every one whom Christ cures, it may be said, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, He was dead, and is alive again, Luke 15.32.
11. Christ cures not only our diseases, but our deformities. §11The Physician can make the sick man well; but if he be deformed, he cannot make him fair; Christ gives not only health, but beauty. Sin hath made us ugly and misshapen; Christs medicines do not only take away our sickness, but our spots; he doth not only make us whole, but fair. Hosea 14.4. I will heal their back-slidings, ver. 6. his beauty shall be as the Olive-tree. Jesus Christ never thinks he hath fully healed us, till he hath drawn his own beautiful image upon us.