A Body of Practical Divinity

Secondly, This Commandment requires, that we should endeavour (as to preserve our own Life, so especially) to preserve our own Souls. Omnia si perdas animam servare memento. It is engraven upon every Creature, as with the Point of a Diamond, that it should look to its own Preservation. If the Life of the Body must be preserved, then much more the Life of the Soul. If he who doth not provide for his own House is worse than an Infidel, 1 Tim. 5.8. then much more he who doth not provide for his own Soul. This is a main thing implied in the Commandment, a special Care for the preserving our Souls. The Soul is the Jewel, [Greek or Hebrew], Macar. The Soul is a Diamond set in a Ring of Clay. Christ puts the Soul in balance with the World, and it outweighs, Matth. 16.26. The Soul is a Glass, in which some Rays of Divine Glory shine: It hath in it some Faint Idea and Resemblance of a Deity: It is a Celestial Spark lighted by the Breath of God. The Body was made out of the Dust, but the Soul is of a more noble Extract and Original. Gen. 2.7. God breathed into Man a living Soul.

Secondly, This Commandment requires, that we should endeavour (as to preserve our own Life, so especially) to preserve our own Souls. Omnia si perdas animam servare memento. It is engraven upon every Creature, as with the Point of a Diamond, that it should look to its own Preservation. If the Life of the Body must be preserved, then much more the Life of the Soul. If he who doth not provide for his own House is worse than an Infidel, 1 Tim. 5.8. then much more he who doth not provide for his own Soul. This is a main thing implied in the Commandment, a special Care for the preserving our Souls. The Soul is the Iewel, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Macar. The Soul is a Diamond set in a Ring of Clay. Christ puts the Soul in ballance with the World, and it outweighs, Matth. 16.26. The Soul is a Glass, in which some Rays of Divine Glory shine: It hath in it some Faint Idea and Resemblance of a Deity: It is a Celestial Spark lighted by the Breath of God. The Body was made out of the Dust, but the Soul is of a more noble Extract and Original.