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The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…
The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1657
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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.
X. An upright man is of a sympathizing1 spirit*, he lays to heart the miseries of Sihon*. This argues much sincerity, Pliny speaks of the aurea vitis, the golden Vine, which feels no injury of wind, or storms. The Church triumphant may be compared to this golden Vine, which is above all storms of injury and flourisheth in perpetual glory: but the Church-militant is not a golden Vine, but a bleeding Vine; now where there is sincerity, there is sympathy.
X. An upright man is of a sympathizing1 spirit*, he laies to heart the miseries of Sihon*. This argues much sincerity, Pliny speaks of the aurea vitis, the golden Vine, which feels no injury of winde, or stormes. The Church triumphant may be compared to this golden Vine, which is above all stormes of injury and flourisheth in perpetual glory: but the Church-militant is not a golden Vine, but a bleeding Vine; now where there is sincerity, there is sympathy.
- 1X. Charact.
- *2 Cor. 12. 26.
- *Tantò quisque perfectior est, quantò perfectius sentit dolours alienos Greg. in Moral.Tantò quisque perfectior est, quantò perfectius sentit dolores alienos Greg. in Moral.