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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.
5. Take heed of familiar converse and intercourse with the wicked. One vain mind makes another; one hard heart makes another; the stone in the body is not infectious, but the stone in the heart is. One profane spirit poisons another; Beware of the society of the wicked.
5. Take heed of familiar converse and intercourse with the wicked. One vain mind makes another; one hard heart makes another; the stone in the body is not infectious, but the stone in the heart is. One profane spirit poysons another; Beware of the society of the wicked.
Quest. Quest. But what hurt is in this? did not Jesus Christ converse with sinners? Luk. 5.29.
Answ. 1 Answ. 1. There was a necessity for that: If Jesus Christ had not come among sinners, how could any have been saved? He went among sinners, not to join with them in their sins, but to heal them of their sins. He was not a Companion of sinners, but a Physician of sinners*.
Answ. 1 Answ. 1. There was a necessity for that: If Jesus Christ had not come among sinners, how could any have been saved? He went among sinners, not to joyn with them in their sins, but to heal them of their sins. He was not a Companion of sinners, but a Physitian of sinners*.
- *Ut si accusetur medicus quod in domum aegroti intraverat. Austin.