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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. Satan doth value souls, he knows their worth; he saith as the King of Sodom did to Abraham, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thy self. So saith Satan, Give me the Persons. He cares not how rich you ⟨p. 458⟩are, he doth not strive to take away your estates, but your souls. Give me the persons saith he, take you the goods; whence are all his [Greek or Hebrew], his warlike stratagems, his subtle snares, but to catch souls? Why doth this Lyon so roar but for his prey? he envies the soul its happiness; he lays the whole train of tentation to blow up the whole Fort-royal of the soul. Why doth he lay such suitable baits? he allures the ambitious man with a Crown, the covetous man with a golden apple; the sanguine man with beauty; why doth he tempt to Delilah's Lap, but to keep you from Abraham's bosom? Latet anguis in herba. The Devil is angling for the precious soul; to undo souls is his pride; he glories in the damnation of souls; it is next to victory to dye revenged. If Sampson must dye, it is some comfort that he shall make more dye with him; if Satan that Lyon must be kept in his hellish Den, it is all the heaven he expects, to reach forth his paw, & pull others into the Den with him.
2. Satan doth value souls, he knows their worth; he saith as the King of Sodom did to Abraham, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thy self. So saith Satan, Give me the Persons. He cares not how rich you ⟨p. 458⟩are, he doth not strive to take away your estates, but your souls. Give me the persons saith he, take you the goods; whence are all his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his warlike stratagems, his subtile snares, but to catch souls? Why doth this Lyon so roar but for his prey? he envies the soul its happiness; he layes the whole train of tentation to blow up the whole Fort-royal of the soul. Why doth he lay such sutable baits? he allures the ambitious man with a Crown, the covetous man with a golden apple; the sanguine man with beauty; why doth he tempt to Dalilah's Lap, but to keep you from Abrahams bosome? Latet anguis in herba. The Divel is angling for the precious soul; to undo souls is his pride; he glories in the damnation of souls; it is next to victory to dye revenged. If Sampson must dye, it is some comfort that he shall make more dye with him; if Satan that Lyon must be kept in his hellish Den, it is all the heaven he expects, to reach forth his paw, & pull others into the Den with him.