A96093:1604
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.
4. They abuse their souls, that starve their souls; these are they that say they are above Ordinances; but sure we shall not be above Ordinances, till we are above sin. The Apostle saith, that in the blessed Sacrament we are to remember the Lords death, [Greek or Hebrew], till he come, 1 Cor. 11.26. That is, until Christ comes to judgement. How then can any omit Sacraments without a contempt and affront offered to Christ himself? if Saint Paul and the Apostles, those Giants in grace, needed the Lords Supper to confirm and corroborate ⟨p. 464⟩them, much more do we need such holy Ordinances, who have but an infant-faith; but Satan likes these fasting days, he would have men fast from Ordinances; if the body be kept from food, it cannot live long.
4. They abuse their souls, that starve their souls; these are they that say they are above Ordinances; but sure we shall not be above Ordinances, till we are above sin. The Apostle saith, that in the blessed Sacrament we are to remember the Lords death, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, till he come, 1 Cor. 11.26. That is, untill Christ comes to judgement. How then can any omit Sacraments without a contempt and affront offered to Christ himself? if Sant Paul and the Apostles, those Gyants in grace, needed the Lords Supper to confirme and corroborate ⟨p. 464⟩them, much more do we need such holy Ordinances, who have but an infant-faith; but Satan likes these fasting dayes, he would have men fast from Ordinances; if the body be kept from food, it cannot live long.
Branch. 2 2. If the soul be so precious a thing, take heed you do not lose your souls; consider what a loss it is, as appears in two things.