A65285:1178
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
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Resp. 1. Faith is a quickening Grace, it is the Vital Artery of the Soul, Hab. 2.4. The just shall live by faith. Life makes us capable of Adoption, dead Children are never adopted.
Resp. 1. Faith is a quickning Grace, it is the Vital Artery of the Soul, Hab. 2.4. The just shall live by faith. Life makes us capable of Adoption, dead Children are never adopted.
2. Faith makes us CHRIST's Brethren, and so GOD comes to be our Father.
Use 1. Branch 1. See the amazing Love of God in making us his Sons. Plato gave God Thanks, that he had made him a Man, and not only a Man, but a Philosopher: but it is infinitely more, that he should invest us with the Prerogative of Sons. It is Love in God to feed us, but more to adopt us, 1 Joh. 3.1. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! It is an Ecce Admirantis, a Behold of Wonder.