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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, take heed of abusing Use 2 your souls.1 Socrates exhorted young men that they should look their faces in a glass, and if they saw they Branch. 1 were fair, Caverent ne quid ea pulchritudine indignum committerent, they should have a care to do nothing unworthy of their beauty. Christians, God hath given you souls that sparkle with divine beauty; oh do nothing unworthy of these souls, do not abuse them: ⟨p. 462⟩There are four sorts of Persons that abuse their souls.
1. If the soul be so precious, take heed of abusing Use 2 your souls.1 Socrates exhorted young men that they should look their faces in a glass, and if they saw they Branch. 1 were fair, Caverent ne quid ea pulchritudine indignum committerent, they should have a care to do nothing unworthy of their beauty. Christians, God hath given you souls that sparkle with divine beauty; oh do nothing unworthy of these souls, do not abuse them: ⟨p. 462⟩There are foure sorts of Persons that abuse their souls.
- 1Exhort.
1. They that degrade their souls.