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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.
3. Take heed of relapses: Men are afraid of a relapse after they are cured; beware of soul-relapses. Hath God softened thy heart? take heed of hardening it. Hath he cured thee in some measure of deadness? do not relapse into a drowsy security. Thou mayest have such an uproar and agony in thy conscience, as may make thee go weeping to thy grave. Oh take heed of falling sick again; sin no more, best a worse thing come unto thee, John 5.14.
3. Take heed of relapses: Men are afraid of a relapse after they are cured; beware of soul-relapses. Hath God softned thy heart? take heed of hardning it. Hath he cured thee in some measure of deadness? do not relapse into a drowsie security. Thou mayest have such an uproar and agony in thy conscience, as may make thee go weeping to thy grave. Oh take heed of falling sick again; sin no more, best a worse thing come unto thee, John 5.14.
4. Pity your friends that are sick unto death; show your piety in your pity. Hast thou a child that is well and lusty, but hath a sick soul? pity him, pray for him. David wept and fasted for his sick child, 2 Sam. 12.16. ⟨p. 509⟩Thy child hath the plague of the heart, and Thou hast conveyed the plague to him; weep and fast for thy child. Hast thou a wife or husband that (though they do not keep their bed yet) the Lord knows they are sick, they are under the raging power of sin? oh let thy bowels yearn over them; lift up a prayer for them; the prayer of faith may save a sick soul. Prayer is the best physic can be used in a desperate case; you that have felt the disease of sin, and the mercy of your Physician, learn to pity others.