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The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch
The spiritual watch, or Christs general watch-word A meditation on Mark. 13. 37. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.The spirituall vvatch, or Christs generall watch-word A meditation on Mark. 13. 37. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for William Bladen, 1619
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 Meaning of the word, what it is to watch. 2. The Reasons, why we ought so to watch. 3. The manner, how we must watch. 4. The Means, whereby we may watch.
1. The Meaning of the word, what it is to watch. 2. The Reasons, why we ought so to watch. 3. The manner, how we must watch. 4. The Meanes, whereby we may watch.
The two former belong to Doctrine; the two latter to Use.
The two former belong to Doctrine; the two latter to Vse.
§. 2. For the first of them, to wit, what it is to watch. Watching is, to speak properly, san affection of the body; and is by way of metaphor only applied unto the soul. In regard whereof it will not be amiss to consider briefly what it importeth in the one, that we may the better conceive thereby what it signifieth in the other.
§. 2. For the first of them, to wit, what it is to watch. Watching is, to speake properly, san affection of the bodie; and is by way of metaphor onely applied vnto the soule. In regard whereof it will not be amisse to consider briefly what it importeth in the one, that we may the better conceiue thereby what it signifieth in the other.
- sCorporū est somnus, sicut & mors cum speculo suo somno. Anima quiet• nunquam succedit. Tertull. de anim• c. 32. & 25. Jacet enim dormienti corpus ut mortui, viget autem & vivit animus. Cicer. de divin. l. 1. Somnus siquidem è corpore est, atque in corpore operatur, Aug. de immortal. anim. c. 14. Corpore auto dormiente aima insomnis agit. Hippor. de insomn. Totaque sibi sua est, Jul. Scalig. ad eundem.