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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 fatal loss to lose the soul.
1. It is an unparalleled loss, because in losing the soul there are so many things lost with it; as a Merchant in losing his ship, loseth many things with it; his money, plate, jewels, spices. Thus he that loseth his soul, he loseth Christ, he loseth the Comforter, he loseth the Society of Angels, he loseth Heaven.
1. It is an unparallel'd loss, because in losing the soul there are so many things lost with it; as a Merchant in losing his ship, loseth many things with it; his money, plate, jewels, spices. Thus he that loseth his soul, he loseth Christ, he loseth the Comforter, he loseth the Society of Angels, he loseth Heaven.
2. It is an irreparable loss; other losses may be made up again; if a man lose his health, he may recover it again; if he lose his Estate, he may get it up again; but if he lose his soul, this loss can never be made up again. Are there any more Saviours to dye for the soul? as Naomi said to her daughters, Are there yet any more sons in my womb? Ruth 1.11. Hath God any more sons? or will he send his Son any more into the world? oh no, if the soul be lost, Christs next coming is not •o save it, but to judge it. Christian, remember thou hast but one soul, and if that be gone, all is gone. God, saith Chrysostom, hath given thee two eyes, if thou losest one, thou hast another; but thou hast but one soul, and if that perish, thou art quite undone. The Merchant that ventures all in one ship, if that ship be lost, he is quite broken.