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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.
2. The preciousness of the soul appears in its immortality. There are some that say the soul is mortal; indeed it were well for those who do not live like men, if they might dye like beasts; but as Julius Scaliger well observes, it is impossible for any thing of a spiritual, uncompounded nature, to be subject to death and corruption, the souls of believers are with Christ after death, Phil. 1.23 Oecolampadias said to his friend who came to visit him on his death-bed, Good news, I shall be shortly with Christ my Lord. And the devout soul shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4. ult. The Heathens had some glimmerings of the souls immortality. Cicero saith that the Swan was dedicated to Apollo, because she sings sweetly before her death; by which Hieroglyphic they intimated the joyfulness of virtuous men before their death, as supposing the Elysian delights, which they should always enjoy after this life. And we read it was a custom among the Romans, that when their great men dyed, they caused an Eagle to fly aloft in the Air, signifying hereby that the soul was immortal, and did not dye as the body.
2. The preciousness of the soul appears in its immortality. There are some that say the soul is mortal; indeed it were well for those who do not live like men, if they might dye like beasts; but as Julius Scaliger well observes, it is impossible for any thing of a spiritual, uncompounded nature, to be subject to death and corruption, the souls of believers are with Christ after death, Phil. 1.23 Oecolampadias said to his friend who came to visit him on his death-bed, Good news, I shall be shortly with Christ my Lord. And the devout soul shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4. ult. The Heathens had some glimmerings of the souls immortality. Cicero saith that the Swan was dedicated to Apollo, because she sings sweetly before her death; by which Hieroglyphick they intimated the joyfulness of vertuous men before their death, as supposing the Elizian delights, which they should alwayes enjoy after this life. And we read it was a custom among the Romans, that when their great men dyed, they caused an Eagle to flie aloft in the Ayre, signifying hereby that the soul was immortal, and did not dye as the body.