A96093:1727
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.
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, Luke 7.6. Lord trouble not thy self, for I am not worthy that thy thou shouldest enter under my roof. Christ was coming to heal his servant, but the Centurion would have slaved off Christ from coming, [Greek or Hebrew]. I am not worthy. So saith many a trembling soul, Christ is a Physician; but who am I that Christ should come under my roof, or heal me! I am unworthy of mercy, as Mephibosheth said to King David, 2 Sam. 9.8. What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead Dog as ⟨p. 501⟩I am? Now to such as have their hearts broken with a sense of their unworthiness, and are discouraged from coming to Christ to heal them, let me say these five things by way of reply.
Object. 1 Obj•ction 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, Luke 7.6. Lord trouble not thy self, for I am not worthy that thy thou shouldest enter under my roof. Christ was coming to heal his servant, but the Centurion would have slaved off Christ from coming, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. I am not worthy. So saith many a trembling soul, Christ is a Physitian; but who am I that Christ should come under my roof, or heal me! I am unworthy of mercy, as Mephibosheth said to King David, 2 Sam. 9.8. What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead Dog as ⟨p. 501⟩I am? Now to such as have their hearts broken with a sense of their unworthiness, and are discouraged from coming to Christ to heal them, let me say these five things by way of reply.