A96093:1600
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. 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? 1 Tim. 6.9, 10. It is observed that the Eagles quills or feathers mixed with Hens feathers, will in time consume them; such is the world to the soul; ⟨p. 463⟩if you mix these earthly things with your souls, and let them lie too near you, they will in time consume and undo your 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 damn'd their souls for money? 1 Tim. 6.9, 10. It is observed that the Eagles quills or feathers mixed with Hens feathers, will in time consume them; such is the world to the soul; ⟨p. 463⟩if you mix these earthly things with your souls, and let them lie too near you, they will in time consume and undo your souls.
2. The ambitious person sells his soul for honour; as Alexander the sixth did sell his soul to the Devil for a Popedom; and what is honour but res imaginaria? a Torch lighted by the breath of people, with the least puff of censure blown out! Miserum est alienae incumbere famae. How many souls have been blown to hell with the wind of popular applause?