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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. That heart is impure, which sees no need of purity. ⟨p. 231⟩Revel. 3.17. I am rich, and have need of nothing. Not to be sensible of a disease, is worse than the disease; you shall hear a sick man say, I am well, I ail nothing; there are some who need no Repentance, Luk. 15.7. Some sinners are too well to be cured; heart-purity is as great a wonder to a natural man, as the new-birth was to Nicodemus, Joh. 3.4. 'Tis sad to think how many go on confidently, and are ready to bless themselves, never suspecting their condition till it be too late.
2. That heart is impure, which sees no need of purity. ⟨p. 231⟩Revel. 3.17. I am rich, and have need of nothing. Not to be sensible of a disease, is worse than the disease; you shall hear a sick man say, I am well, I ayle nothing; there are some who need no Repentance, Luk. 15.7. Some sinners are too well to be cured; heart-purity is as great a wonder to a natural man, as the new-birth was to Nicodemus, Joh. 3.4. 'Tis sad to think how many go on confidently, and are ready to bless themselves, never suspecting their condition till it be too late.