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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
Appendix › The preciousness of the Soul.Appendix › The preciousnesse of the Soul.
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.
Every man doth carry a treasure about him, a DIVINE SOUL, and that this Jewel should not be undervalued, our Saviour here sets a price upon it, he lays the soul in balance with the whole world, and being put in the scales, the soul weighs heaviest. What is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
EVery man doth carry a treasure about him, a DIVINE SOUL, and that this Jewel should not be undervalued, our Saviour here sets a price upon it, he laies the soul in ballance with the whole world, and being put in the scales, the soul weighs heaviest. What is a man profited if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
The world is a stately fabric, enriched with beauty and excellency, it is like a curious piece of Arras, set about with divers colours; 'tis a bright Mirror, and Crystal in which much of the wisdom and majesty of God is resplendent; But as glorious as this world is, every man doth carry a more glorious world about him, a ⟨p. 452⟩precious soul. Magna res est anima. — It would banquer the world to give half the price of a soul; it will undo the world to buy it, and it will undo him that shall sell it. If we can save our souls, though we lose the world, it is a gainful loss; if we lose our souls, though we gain the world, our very gains will undo us. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
The world is a stately fabrick, enriched with beauty and excellency, it is like a curious piece of Arras, set about with divers colours; 'tis a bright Myrror, and Christal in which much of the wisdom and majesty of God is resplendent; But as glorious as this world is, every man doth carry a more glorious world about him, a ⟨p. 452⟩precious soul. Magna res est anima. — It would banquer the world to give half the price of a soul; it will undo the world to buy it, and it will undo him that shall sell it. If we can save our souls, though we lose the world, it is a gainful losse; if we lose our souls, though we gain the world, our very gains will undo us. For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?