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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. 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?
2. The ambitious person sells his soul for honour; as Alexander the sixth did sell his soul to the Divel 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 winde of popular applause?
3. The voluptuous person sells his soul for pleasure. Heliogabalus drowned himself in sweet water; so many drown their souls in the sweet perfumed waters of pleasure. Plato calls pleasure the bait that catcheth souls: Ea capiuntur ut pisces hamo. Pleasure is a silken halter, a flattering Devil, it kills with embracing.
3. The voluptuous person sells his soul for pleasure. Heliogabalus drowned himself in sweet water; so many drown their souls in the sweet perfumed waters of pleasure. Plato calls pleasure the bait that catcheth souls: Ea capiuntur ut pisces hamo. Pleasure is a silken halter, a flattering Divel, it kills with embracing.
3. They abuse their souls that poison their souls; error is a sweet poison, Ignatius calls it the invention of the Devil*. A man may as well damn his soul by error as vice, and may as soon go to hell for a drunken opinion, as for a drunken life.