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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.
Answ. Though thy disease be chronic, Answ. Christ can heal it; Christ doth not say, if this disease had been taken in time, it might have been cured; he is good at old sores. The Thief on the Cross had an old festering disease, but Christ cured it; it was well for him his Physician was so near. Zacheus an old sinner, a Custom-house man, he had wronged many a one in his time, but Christ cured him. Christ sometimes grafts his grace upon an old Stock; we read Christ cured at Sun-setting, Luke 4.40. He heals some sinners at the Sun-setting of their lives.
Answ. Though thy disease be chronical, Answ. Christ can heal it; Christ doth not say, if this disease had been taken in time, it might have been cured; he is good at old sores. The Thief on the Cross had an old festring disease, but Christ cured it; it was well for him his Physitian was so near. Zacheus an old sinner, a Custome-house man, he had wronged many a one in his time, but Christ cured him. Christ sometimes grafts his grace upon an old Stock; we read Christ cured at Sun-setting, Luke 4.40. He heals some sinners at the Sun-setting of their lives.
6. Objection. But after I have been healed, my disease Object. 6 hath broken forth again? I have relapsed into the same sin; therefore I fear there's no healing for me.
Answ. It is rare that the Lord leaves his children to these relapses, though through the suspension of grace, Answ. and the prevalency of tentation, it is possible they may fall back into sin; these sins of relapse are sad. It was an aggravation of Solomons offence, that he sinned after the Lord had appeared to him twice,