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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. True Child-like Obedience is Uniform: A Child of God makes Conscience of one Command as well as another: Quicquid propter Deum fit aequaliter fit.—All God's Commands have the same Stamp of Divine Authority upon them; and if I obey one Precept because my Heavenly Father commands me, then by the same Rule I must obey all: As the Blood runs through all the Veins of the Body; and the Sun in the Firmament runs through all the Signs of the Zodiac; so true Child-like Obedience runs through the First and Second Table, Psal. 119.6. When I have respect to all thy commandments. To obey God in some things of Religion, and not in others, shows an unsound Heart: Like Esau who obeyed his Father in bringing him Venison, but not in a greater matter, viz. the Choice of his Wife. Child-like Obedience moves towards every Command of God; as the Needle points that way which the Load-stone draws. If God call to Duties which are cross to Flesh and Blood, if we are Children we obey our Father.
2. True Child-like Obedience is Uniform: A Child of God makes Conscience of one Command as well as another: Quicquid propter Deum fit aequaliter fit.—All God's Commands have the same Stamp of Divine Authority upon them; and if I obey one Precept because my Heavenly Father commands me, then by the same Rule I must obey all: As the Bloud runs through all the Veins of the Body; and the Sun in the Firmament runs through all the Signs of the Zodiack; so true Child-like Obedience runs through the First and Second Table, Psal. 119.6. When I have respect to all thy commandments. To obey God in some things of Religion, and not in others, shows an unsound Heart: Like Esau who obeyed his Father in bringing him Venison, but not in a greater matter, viz. the Choice of his Wife. Child-like Obedience moves towards every Command of God; as the Needle points that way which the Load-stone draws. If God call to Duties which are cross to Flesh and Bloud, if we are Children we obey our Father.
Quest. But who can obey God in all things?