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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quest. To what hath Christ redeemed us?
Resp. He hath redeemed us to a glorious Inheritance, 1 Pet. 1.4. To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.
1. To an Inheritance.] Christ hath not only redeemed us out of Prison, but he hath redeemed us to a State of Happiness, to an Inheritance: Heaven is not a Lease which soon expires, but an Inheritance; and a glorious Inheritance, Col. 1.12. An Inheritance, [Greek or Hebrew], in Light. Lumen actuat colours: Light adorns and gilds the World: What were the World without Light, but a Prison? The Heavenly Inheritance is irradiated with Light: Christ as a continual Sun enlightens it with his Beams, Rev. 21.23.
1. To an Inheritance.] Christ hath not only redeemed us out of Prison, but he hath redeemed us to a State of Happiness, to an Inheritance: Heaven is not a Lease which soon expires, but an Inheritance; and a glorious Inheritance, Col. 1.12. An Inheritance, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in Light. Lumen actuat colores: Light adorns and gilds the World: What were the World without Light, but a Prison? The Heavenly Inheritance is irradiated with Light: Christ as a continual Sun enlightens it with his Beams,