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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. Soul-mercy is in reproving refractory sinners; there is a cruel mercy, when we see men go on in sin, and we let them alone; and there is a merciful cruelty, when we are sharp against mens sins, and will not let them go to hell quietly. Lev. 19.17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. Fond pity is no better than cruelty: Titus 1.13. Rebuke them sharply; [Greek or Hebrew], cuttingly; the Chirurgeon cuts and lanceth the flesh, but it is in order to a cure, they are healing wounds; so by a cutting reproof, when we lance mens consciences, and let out the blood of sin, we exercise spiritual Chirurgery, this is showing mercy. Jude 23. Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire. If a man were in the fire, though you did hurt him a little in pulling him ⟨p. 185⟩out, he would be thankful, and take it as a kindness. Some men when we tell them of sin, say, O this is bitterness; no, it is showing mercy. If a mans house were on fire, and another should see it, and not tell him of it for fear of waking him, were not this cruelty? when we see others sleeping the sleep of death, and the fire of Gods wrath ready to burn about their ears, and we are silent, is not this to be accessory to their death?
3. Soul-mercy is in reproving refractory sinners; there is a cruel mercy, when we see men go on in sin, and we let them alone; and there is a merciful cruelty, when we are sharp against mens sins, and will not let them go to hell quietly. Lev. 19.17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. Fond pity is no better than cruelty: Titus 1.13. Rebuke them sharply; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, cuttingly; the Chyrurgion cuts and lanceth the flesh, but it is in order to a cure, they are healing wounds; so by a cutting reproof, when we lance mens consciences, and let out the blood of sin, we exercise spiritual Chyrurgery, this is shewing mercy.