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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.
1. Spirituality. The soul is a spiritual substance. 'Tis a saying among the Ancients, our souls are tempered in the same mortar with the heavenly spirits*. Now the soul is spiritual three manner of ways.
1. Spirituality. The soul is a spiritual substance. 'Tis a saying among the Ancients, our souls are tempered in the same mortar with the heavenly spirits*. Now the soul is spiritual three manner of wayes.
- *In eodem cratere temperatas esse animas nostras cum caelestibus.
In its Essence. Object. Operation.
1. The soul is spiritual in its Essence. God breathed it in, Gen. 2.7. It is a sparkle lighted by the breath of God. The soul may be compared to the spirits of the wine, the body to the dregs: the spirits are more pure ⟨p. 455⟩refined part of the wine, such is the soul; the body is more feculent, the soul is the more refined, sublimated part of man. Mistake me not, when I say the soul is spiritual, and that it is a beam of God, I do not mean that it is of the same substance with him; as Servetus, Ofiander, and others have held; for when it is said God breathed into man the breath of life, they erroneously thought that the soul being infused did convey into man the spirit and substance of God, which opinion is absurd and sinful: For if the soul should be part of the Divine Essence, then it will follow that the Essence of God should be subject not only to change and passion, but which is worse, to sin, which were blasphemy to assert; so that when we say the soul is spiritual, the meaning is, God hath invested it with many noble endowments, he hath made it a mirror of beauty, and printed upon it a surpassing excellency; as the Sun shining upon a Chrystal, conveys its beauty, not its being.