A65285:1014
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.
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, Rev. 21.23.