A96093:839
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. The Bath of tears*: Go into this Bath; Peter had sullied and defiled himself with sin, and he washed himself with penitential tears. Mary Magdalen who was an impure sinner, stood at Jesus feet weeping, Luk. 7.38. Mary's tears did wash her heart, as well as Christs feet. Oh sinners, let your eyes be a fountain of tears; weep for those sins which are so many, as have passed all Arithmetic; this water of contrition is healing and purifying.
1. The Bath of tears*: Go into this Bath; Peter had sullied and defiled himself with sin, and he washed himself with penitential tears. Mary Magdalen who was an impure sinner, stood at Jesus feet weeping, Luk. 7.38. Maries tears did wash her heart, as well as Christs feet. Oh sinners, let your eyes be a fountain of tears; weep for those sins which are so many, as have passed all Arithmetick; this water of contrition is healing and purifying.
- *Lavacrum lachrymarum.
2. The Bath of Christs blood*; this is that fountain opened for sin, and for uncleanness, Zach. 13.1. A soul steeped in the brinish tears of Repentance, and bathed in the blood of Christ, is made pure; this is that [Greek or Hebrew]; all the legal washings and purifications were but Types and Emblems, representing Christs blood; this blood lays the soul a whitening.