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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.
Not that faith hath more worthiness than other graces; but only it is influential, as it makes us one with Christ. If a man had a stone in a Ring that could heal many diseases, we say the Ring heals, but it is not the Ring, but the stone in the Ring that doth the cure; so faith saves and heals, not by its own virtue, but as it lays hold on Christ, and fetcheth down his sacred influences into the soul.
Not that faith hath more worthiness than other graces; but only it is influential, as it makes us one with Christ. If a man had a stone in a Ring that could heal many diseases, we say the Ring heals, but it is not the Ring, but the stone in the Ring that doth the cure; so faith saves and heals, not by its own vertue, but as it layes hold on Christ, and fetcheth down his sacred influences into the soul.
2. If Jesus Christ be a spiritual Physician, let us labour to hasten the cure of our souls. Consider:
2. If Jesus Christ be a spiritual Physitian, let us labour to hasten the cure of our souls. Consider:
1. What a little time we have to stay here, and let that hasten the cure. Solomon saith there is a time to be born, and a time to d•e, Eccles. 3.2. but mentions no time of living, as if that were so sho•t, that it were not worth naming; the body is called a vessel, 1 Thes. 4.4