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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. Their liberties should be precious. Constantine was a great honourer of the Ministry; if indeed you see any of them who are of this holy and honourable function, like that drug the Physicians speak of, which is hot in the mouth, but cold in operation; if you see them either idle or ravenous, if they do not [Greek or Hebrew], & [Greek or Hebrew], divide the Word rightly, and live uprightly, censure and spare not. God forbid I should open ⟨p. 461⟩my mouth for such. In the Law the lips of the Leper were to be covered; that Minister who is by office an Angel, but by his life a Leper, ought to have his lips covered, he deserves silencing. A good Preacher, but a bad liver, is like a Physician that hath the plague; though his advice and receipts which he gives may be good, yet his plague infects the Patient; so though Ministers may have good words, and give good receipts in the Pulpit, yet the plague of their lives infects their people. If you find a Hophni and Phinehas among the sons of Levi, whose unholy carriage makes the offering of God to be abhorred, you will save God a labour in ejecting them; but be sure you distinguish between the precious and the vile; while you let out the bad blood, have a care to preserve the heart-blood; while you purge out the ill humours, do not destroy the spirits; while you are taking away the snuffs, do not eclipse the lights of Gods Sanctuary; it is a work fit for a Julian to suppress the Orthodox Ministry, and open the Temple of the Idol. The Romans sacked the City of Corinth, and razed it down to the ground for some incivility offered to their Ambassador. God will avenge the affronts offered to his Ministers, Psa. 105.15. Oh take heed of this; if souls be of such infinite value, how precious should their liberties be, whose very design and negotiation is to save souls? 1 Tim. 4.16. Jude 23.
2. Their liberties should be precious. Constantine was a great honourer of the Minstry; if indeed you see any of them who are of this holy and honourable function, like that drug the Physitians speak of, which is hot in the mouth, but cold in operation; if you see them either idle or ravenous, if they do not , & , divide the Word rightly, and live uprightly, censure and spare not. God forbid I should open