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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.
Use 2 2. If Christ be a Physician, then let us make use of this Physician for our diseased souls. Luke 4.40. When the Sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them unto him, and he laid his hands on every of them, and healed them. You that have neglected a Physician all this while, now when the Sun of the Gospel, and the Sun of your life is even setting, bring your sick souls to Christ to be cured. Christ complains that though men are sick even to death, yet they will not come or send to the Physician. John 5.40. Ye will not come to me that ye might have life. In bodily diseases the Physician is the first that is sent to; in soul-diseases the Physician is the last that is sent to. But here there are many sad Objections that poor souls make against themselves, why they do not come to Christ their Physician.
Use 2 2. If Christ be a Physitian, then let us make use of this Physitian for our diseased souls. Luke 4.40. When the Sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases, brought them unto him, and he laid his hands on every of them, and healed them. You that have neglected a Physitian all this while, now when the Sun of the Gospel, and the Sun of your life is even setting, bring your sick souls to Christ to be cured. Christ complains that though men are sick even to death, yet they will not come or send to the Physitian. John 5.40. Ye will not come to me that ye might have life. In bodily diseases the Physitian is the first that is sent to; in soul-diseases the Physitian is the last that is sent to. But here there are many sad Objections that poor souls make against themselves, why they do not come to Christ their Physitian.
Object. 1 Objection 1. Alas, I am discouraged to go to Christ to cure me, because of my unworthiness; just like the Centurion, who sent to Christ about his sick servant,