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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. That make their souls Lackies to their bodies. The body is but the brutish part, the soul is the angelical; the soul is the Queen-regent, who is adorned with the jewels of knowledge, and sways the Sceptre of liberty; oh what pity is it that this excellent soul should be made a vassal, and be put to grind in the Mill, when the body in the mean time sits in a Chair of State! Solomon complains of an evil under the Sun, Eccles. 10.7. I have seen servants upon horses, and Princes walking as servants upon the earth. Is it not an evil under the Sun to see the body riding in pomp and triumph, and the soul of man that royal and heaven-born thing, as a Lackey walking on foot?
2. That make their souls Lackies to their bodies. The body is but the brutish part, the soul is the angelical; the soul is the Queen-regent, who is adorned with the jewels of knowledge, and sways the Scepter of liberty; oh what pity is it that this excellent soul should be made a vassal, and be put to grinde in the Mill, when the body in the mean time sits in a Chair of State! Solomon complains of an evil under the Sun, Eccles. 10.7. I have seen servants upon horses, and Princes walking as servants upon the earth. Is it not an evil under the Sun to see the body riding in pomp and triumph, and the soul of man that royal and heaven-born thing, as a Lacky walking on foot?
2. They abuse their souls, that sell their souls.
1. The covetous person sells his soul for money; as it is said of the Lawyer, he hath linguam venalem, a tongue that will be sold for a Fee; so the covetous man hath animam venalem, a soul that is to be set to sale for money. Achan did sell his soul for a wedge of gold. Judas did sell his soul for silver; Judas sold cheap penny-worths; for thirty pieces he did sell Christ, who was more worth than heaven; and his own soul, which was more worth than a world! how many have damned their souls for money?