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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
3. A secure sinner is careless about the main Chance.1 The Soul is the princely part, which is crowned with reason; it is a glass of the▪ Trinity, as Plato calls it. A secure sinner provides for his Body, but neglects his Soul; like one that waters his Flowers, but never minds his Jewels. Behold here a secure person, who is in a spiritual Lethargy; he hath no sense of the life to come, he is destitute of the fear of God.
3. A secure sinner is careless about the main Chance.1 The Soul is the princely part, which is crowned with reason; it is a glass of the▪ Trinity, as Plato calls it. A secure sinner provides for his Body, but neglects his Soul; like one that waters his Flowers, but never minds his Jewels. Behold here a secure person, who is in a spiritual Lethargy; he hath no sence of the life to come, he is destitute of the fear of God.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Mat. 26.26〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Mat. 26.26
It reproves Scoffers, who are the vilest of sinners.1 2 Pet. 3.3. There shall come in the last days Scoffers. Such were Lucian and Porphyry. These Ishmaels jeer at holy walking, and make all Religion a Ridicule. They throw Squibs of reproach at the Saints. Quintinus scoffed at Christs Apostles. In the Massacre at Paris, the Papists cried out to the Protestants when