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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.
2. Now is properly the time of healing, now is the day of grace, now Christ pours out his balsams, now he sends abroad his Ministers and Spirit. 2 Cor. 6.2. Now is the accepted time: There were certain healing days wherein the King healed them that had the evil. The day of grace is an healing day; if we neglect the day of grace, the next will be a day of wrath, Rom. 2.5. Oh therefore hasten the cure of thy soul; rather neglect thy food, than thy cure; sin will not only kill, but damn.
2. Now is properly the time of healing, now is the day of grace, now Christ poures out his balsomes, now he sends abroad his Ministers and Spirit. 2 Cor. 6.2. Now is the accepted time: There were certain healing dayes wherein the King healed them that had the evil. The day of grace is an healing day; if we neglect the day of grace, the next will be a day of wrath, Rom. 2.5. Oh therefore hasten the cure of thy soul; rather neglect thy food, than thy cure; sin will not only kill, but damn.
To get a cure,
1. Come to the healing pool of the Sanctuary; the Spirit of God may on a sudden stir these waters; the next Sabbath for ought thou knowest, may be an healing day to thy soul.