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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
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2. Consider what we were before God did adopt us: We were very deformed; a Man will scarce adopt him for his Heir that is crooked and ill-favoured, but that hath some Beauty. Mordecai adopted Esther because she was fair. But we were in our Blood, and then God adopted us: Ezek. 16.6. When I saw thee polluted in thy blood, it was the time of love. God did not adopt us when we were bespangled with the Jewels of Holiness, and had the Angels Glory upon us, but when we were black as Ethiopians, diseased as Lepers, then it was the time of Love.
2. Consider what we were before God did adopt us: We were very deformed; a Man will scarce adopt him for his Heir that is crooked and ill-favoured, but that hath some Beauty. Mordecai adopted Esther because she was fair. But we were in our Bloud, and then God adopted us: Ezek. 16.6. When I saw thee polluted in thy bloud, it was the time of love. God did not adopt us when we were bespangled with the Jewels of Holiness, and had the Angels Glory upon us, but when we were black as Aethiopians, diseased as Leapers, then it was the time of Love.
3. That God should be at so great Expense in adopting us: When Men adopt they have only some Deed sealed, and the thing is effected; but when God adopts, it puts him to a far greater Expense, it se•s his Wisdom a work to find out a way to adopt us: It was no easy thing to make the Heirs of Wrath, Heirs of the Promise. And when God had found out a way to adopt, it was no easy way; our Adoption is purchased at a dear Rate: When God was about to make us Sons and Heirs, he could not Seal the Deed but by the Blood of his own Son. Here is the Wonder of God's Love in adopting us, that he should be at all this Expense to bring this work about.
3. That God should be at so great Expence in adopting us: When Men adopt they have only some Deed seal'd, and the thing is effected; but when God adopts, it puts him to a far greater Expence, it ses his Wisdom a work to find out a way to adopt us: It was no easie thing to make the Heirs of Wrath, Heirs of the Promise. And when God had found out a way to adopt, it was no easie way; our Adoption is purchased at a dear Rate: When God was about to make us Sons and Heirs, he could not Seal the Deed but by the Bloud of his own Son. Here is the Wonder of God's Love in adopting us, that he should be at all this Expence to bring this work about.