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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. It is a foolish loss, because we lose the soul for things of no value; worldly things are infinitely below the soul, they are non entia. Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thine eyes on that which is not? The world is but a bewitchery, these things glister in our eyes; but at death, we shall say we have set our eyes on that which is not: He that thinks to find happiness here, is like Ixion, that hugged the cloud instead of Juno; and like Apollo, that embraced the Laurel Tree instead of Daphne. Now to lose the soul for such poor inconsiderable things, is a foolish loss; 'tis as if one should throw a Diamond at a Pair-tree, he loseth his Diamond.
2. It is a foolish loss, because we lose the soul for things of no value; worldly things are infinitely below the soul, they are non entia. Prov. 23.5. Wilt thou set thine eyes on that which is not? The world is but a bewitchery, these things glister in our eyes; but at death, we shall say we have set our eyes on that which is not: He that thinks to finde happiness here, is like Ixion, that hug'd the cloud instead of Juno; and like Apollo, that embraced the Laurel Tree instead of Daphne. Now to lose the soul for such poor inconsiderable things, is a foolish loss; 'tis as if one should throw a Diamond at a Pair-tree, he loseth his Diamond.
3. It is a foolish loss; for a man to lose his soul, because he himself hath an hand in it; is it not folly to give ones self poison? a sinner hath his hands embrued in the blood of his own soul. Perditio tua ex te, thy destruction ⟨p. 465⟩is of thy self, Hosea 13.9. They lay wait for their own blood, Prov. 1.18