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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.
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. The foolish sinner nourisheth those lusts that kill his soul; the Tree breeds the worm, and the worm eats the Tree; were it not folly for a Garrison to open to the enemy that besiegeth it? the sinner opens to those lusts which war against his soul, 1 Pet. 2.11. this is a foolish loss.
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 poyson? 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. The foolish sinner nourisheth those lusts that kill his soul; the Tree breeds the worm, and the worm eats the Tree; were it not folly for a Garrison to open to the enemy that besiegeth it? the sinner opens to those lusts which war against his soul, 1 Pet. 2.11. this is a foolish loss.
2. It is a fatal loss to lose the soul.