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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.
The souls immortality may be proved by this Argument, That which is not capable of killing, is not capable of dying; but the soul is not capable of killing; our Saviour ⟨p. 457⟩Christ proves the minor proposition, that it is not capable of killing. Luke 12.4. Fear not them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. Therefore the soul not being capable of killing, is not in a possibility of dying; the essence of the soul is Metaphysical, it hath a beginning, but no end; it is eternal, a part post. The soul doth not wax old*, it lives for ever, which can be said of no sublunary created glory. Worldly things are as full of mutation as motion, and like Jonah's Gourd, have a worm eating at the root.
The souls immortality may be proved by this Argument, That which is not capable of killing, is not capable of dying; but the soul is not capable of killing; our Saviour ⟨p. 457⟩Christ proves the minor proposition, that it is not capable of killing. Luke 12.4. Fear not them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. Therefore the soul not being capable of killing, is not in a possibility of dying; the essence of the soul is Metaphysical, it hath a beginning, but no end; it is eternal, a parte post. The soul doth not wax old*, it lives for ever, which can be said of no sublunary created glory. Worldly things are as full of mutation as motion, and like Jonah's Gourd, have a worme eating at the root.
- *Anima non senescit.