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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.
Man's Chief End TO GLORIFY GOD.Man's Chief End TO GLORIFIE GOD.
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.
Use 1. Is the enjoying God in this Life so sweet, how prodigiously wicked are they that prefer the enjoying their Lusts before the enjoying of God, 2 Pet. 3.3. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life, is the Trinity they worship: Lust is an inordinate Desire or Impulse provoking the Soul to that which is evil; there is the revengeful Lust, and the wanton Lust; Lust is like a feverish Heat, it puts the Soul into a Flame. Aristotle calls sensual Lusts brutish, because when any Lust is violent, Reason or Conscience cannot be heard, the Beast rides the Man. These Lusts when they are enjoyed do besot and dispirit Persons, Hos. 4.11. Whoredom and wine take away the heart: They have no heart for any thing that is good; how many make it their chief end, not to enjoy God, but to enjoy their Lusts? As that Cardinal said, Let him but keep his Cardinalship of Paris, and he was content to loose his part in Paradise. Lust first bewitcheth with Pleasure, and then comes the fatal Dart, Prov. 7.23. Till a dart strike through his liver. This should be as a flaming Sword to stop Men in the way of their carnal Delights; who would for a Drop of Pleasure drink a Sea of Wrath?
Use 1. Is the enjoying God in this Life so sweet, how prodigiously wicked are they that prefer the enjoying their Lusts before the enjoying of God, 2 Pet. 3.3. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life, is the Trinity they worship: Lust is an inordinate Desire or Impulse provoking the Soul to that which is evil; there is the revengeful Lust, and the wanton Lust; Lust is like a feaverish Heat, it puts the Soul into a Flame. Aristotle calls sensual Lusts bruitish, because when any Lust is violent, Reason or Conscience cannot be heard, the Beast rides the Man. These Lusts when they are enjoyed do besot and dispirit Persons, Hos. 4.11. Whoredom and wine take away the heart: They have no heart for any thing that is good; how many make it their chief end, not to enjoy God, but to enjoy their Lusts? As that Cardinal said, Let him but keep his Cardinalship of Paris, and he was content to loose his part in Paradise. Lust first bewitcheth with Pleasure, and then comes the fatal Dart,