A96093:1743
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. 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, 1 Kings 11.9. These sins after healing open the mouth of conscience to accuse, and stop the mouth of Gods Spirit which should speak peace. These sins exclude from the comfort of the promise; it is as it were sequestered; but if the soul be deeply humbled, if the relapsing sinner be a relenting sinner, ⟨p. 504⟩let him not cast away the anchor of hope, but have recourse to his soul-physician; Jesus Christ can cure a relapse, he healed Davids, and Cranmers relapse, 1 John 2.1. If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ. Christ appears in the Court as the Advocate for the Client. As he poured out his blood upon the brazen Altar of the Cross: so he pours out his prayers at the golden Altar in heaven, Heb. 7.25. He ever liveth to make intercession for us. Christ in the work of intercession, presents the merit of his blood to his Father, and so obtains our pardon, and applies the virtue of his blood to us, and so works our cure; therefore be not discouraged from going to thy Physician; though thy disease hath broken out again, yet Christ hath fresh sprinklings of his blood for thee; he can cure a relapse.
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 sinn'd after the Lord had appeared to him twice, 1 Kings 11.9. These sins after healing open the mouth of conscience to accuse, and stop the mouth of Gods Spirit which should speak peace. These sins exclude from the comfort of the promise; it is as it were sequestred; but if the soul be deeply humbled, if the relapsing sinner be a relenting sinner,