Practical Discourses Upon Our Saviours Sermon On the Mount volume 2
Practical Discourses Upon Our Saviours Sermon On the Mount volume 2
Offspring Blackall
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That they ihould both by the Savourineft of their Speech ( as St. Paul expreffes it, Col. Iv. 6. ) that is, by their wholfome Inftru&ions and good Advice, Let your Speech be al- way with Grace, feafoned with Salt . - And alfo by the Savourinefs of their Liver, that is, by the Innocence, Un- blamablenefs, and exemplary Piety of their Converfation, endeavour to gain Profelites to the Chriftian Religion ; that is, not only to the ProfefTion of the [Vol. II. ] M Faith 1 62 Chriftiam in general Fait...h of Chrift, but likewife to the O bedience of Faith, to the Pradice of all the Virtues of a Holy and Chriftiun Life. And this Duty our Saviour expreiTes in the following Part of the Verfe (keep- ing ftill to the Metaphor of Salt ) by fliewing the great Reafonablenefs of it, and the fevere Punifhment that they would incur, if they fhould be negli- gent or failing therein. (i. ) The great Reafonablenefs of it; Jf y fays he, the Salt have loft its Savour, wherewith Jhall it be falted? That is, // you yourfelves, who profefs my pure and holy Religion, and efpe daily, if thofe of you whom I ihall appoint to preach it, (hall neverthelefs be wicked and corrupt in your Lives, your State and Condition will be of all Mens the moft incorrigible and deiperate : For other Things that are flat and infipid, may by Salt have a good Reliili and Tafte infu- fed into them : Or, if they are fubjeft to Corruption and Putre&dicn, they may by Salting be preferved ; but if the Salt itfelf lofes its Savour, there, is no- thin g the Salt of the Earth, &c.
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