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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 soul hath an estimative worth.
1. Jesus Christ hath set an high value and estimate upon the soul; he made it, and he bought it, therefore he best knows the price of it. He did sell himself to buy the soul. Zach. 11.12. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Nay, he was content not only to be sold, but to dye; this enhanceth the price of the soul, it cost the blood of God. Acts 20.28. 1 Pet. 1.19. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. God must dye, that the soul may live; the heir of heaven was mortgaged, and laid to pawn for the soul of man. What could Christ give more than himself? what in himself dearer than his blood? O precious soul, that hast the image of God to beautify thee, and the blood of God to redeem thee! Christ was the Priest, his Divine Nature the Altar, his blood the sacrifice which he did offer up as an atonement for our souls. Now reckon what a drop of Christs blood is worth, and then tell me what a soul is worth.
1. Jesus Christ hath set an high value and estimate upon the soul; he made it, and he bought it, therefore he best knows the price of it. He did sell himself to buy the soul. Zach. 11.12. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Nay, he was content not only to be sold, but to dye; this inhanceth the price of the soul, it cost the blood of God. Acts 20.28. 1 Pet. 1.19. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. God must dye, that the soul may live; the heir of heaven was morgaged, and laid to pawn for the soul of man. What could Christ give more than himself? what in himself dearer than his blood? O precious soul, that hast the image of God to beautifie thee, and the blood of God to redeem thee! Christ was the Priest, his Divine Nature the Altar, his blood the sacrifice which he did offer up as an atonement for our souls. Now reckon what a drop of Christs blood is worth, and then tell me what a soul is worth.