A96093:1751
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.
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. ⟨p. 507⟩This Vessel is filled with breath; sickness broacheth it, and death draws it out. Oh hasten thy souls cure, death is upon its swift march, and if that surpriseth you suddenly, there is no cure to be wrought in the grave. Eccles. 9.10. There is no work, nor device, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest.
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. ⟨p. 507⟩This Vessel is filled with breath; sickness broacheth it, and death draws it out. Oh hasten thy souls cure, death is upon its swift march, and if that surprizeth you suddenly, there is no cure to be wrought in the grave. Eccles. 9.10. There is no work, nor device, nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest.