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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.
12. And lastly, Christ is the most bountiful Physician.§12 Other Patients do enrich their Physicians, but here the Physician doth enrich the Patient. Christ prefers all his Patients; he doth not only cure them, but crown them, Rev. 2.10. Christ doth not only raise from the bed, but to the Throne; he gives the sick man not only health, but heaven.
12. And lastly, Christ is the most bountiful Physitian.§12 Other Patients do enrich their Physitians, but here the Physitian doth enrich the Patient. Christ prefers all his Patients; he doth not only cure them, but crown them, Rev. 2.10. Christ doth not only raise from the bed, but to the Throne; he gives the sick man not only health, but heaven.
1 Good News this day, there is balm in Gilead; Use 1 there is a Physician to heal sin-sick souls; the Angels that fell had no Physiti•• sent to them, we have; there are but few in the world to whom Christ is revealed; they that have the gold of the Indies, want the blood of the Lamb; but the Sun of righteousness is risen in our Hemisphere, with healing in his wings. If a man were poisoned, what a comfort would it be to him to hear that there were an herb in the Garden could heal him! if he had a gangrene in his body, and were given over by all his friends, how glad would he be to hear of a Chirurgeon ⟨p. 500⟩that could cure him! O sinner, thou art full of peccant humours, thou hast a gangrened soul; but there is a Physician that can recover thee. There is hope in Israel concerning this; though there be an old Serpent to sting us with his tentations, yet there is a Brazen Serpent to heal us with his blood.