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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.
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.
2. Though Christ did converse with sinners, he could not be polluted with their sin; his Divine Nature was a sufficient Antidote to preserve him from infection. Christ could be no more defiled with their sin, then the Sun is defiled by shining on a Dunghill. Sin could no more stick on Christ, than a Bur on a glass of Chrystal; the soil of his heart was so pure, that no viper of sin could breed there. But the case is altered with us; we have a stock of corruption within, and the least thing will increase this stock; therefore it is dangerous mingling our selves among the wicked. If we would be pure in heart, let us shun their society. He that would preserve his garment clean, avoids the dirt; the wicked are as the mire, ⟨p. 257⟩Isa. 57.20. The fresh waters running among the salt, taste brackish.
2. Though Christ did converse with sinners, he could not be polluted with their sin; his Divine Nature was a sufficient Antidote to preserve him from infection. Christ could be no more defiled with their sin, then the Sun is defiled by shining on a Dunghill. Sin could no more stick on Christ, than a Bur on a glass of Chrystal; the soil of his heart was so pure, that no viper of sin could breed there. But the case is altered with us; we have a stock of corruption within, and the least thing will encrease this stock; therefore it is dangerous mingling our selves among the wicked. If we would be pure in heart, let us shun their society. He that would preserve his garment clean, avoids the dirt; the wicked are as the mire,