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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. If the soul be so precious, see then what that Use 1 worship is that God doth expect and accept; namely,1 that which comes from the more noble part of the soul. Branch. 1 Psal. 25.1. To thee O Lord do I lift up my soul. David did not only lift up his voice, but his soul; though God will have the eye and the knee, the service of the body; yet he complains of them that draw near with their lips, when their hearts were far from him, Isa. 29.13.* The soul is the jewel; David did not only put his Lute and Viol in tune, but his soul in tune to praise God. Psal. 103.1. Bless the Lord O my soul; his affections joining together in worship made up the consort. The soul is both Altar, Fire and Incense; it is the Altar on which we offer up our prayers, the Fire which kindles our prayers, and the Incense which perfumes them. Gods eye is chiefly upon the soul; bring an hundred dishes to Table, he will carve of none but this; this is the savoury meat he loves He who is best, will be served with the best; when we give him the soul in a duty, now we give him the flower and the cream; by an holy Chemistry we still out the spirits. A soul inflamed in service, is ⟨p. 460⟩the cup of spiced wine, and the juice of the Pomegranate, which the Spouse makes Christ to drink off*; without the worship of the soul, all our Religion is but [Greek or Hebrew], bodily exercise, 1 Tim. 4.8. which profits nothing; without the soul we give God but a carcass. What are all the Papists Fastings, Penance, Pilgrimages, but going to hell in more pomp and state? What are the Formalists prayers, which do even cool between his lips, but a dead devotion? It is not sacrifice, but sacrilege; he robs God of that which he hath a right to, his soul.