A65285:1196
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.
Ans. An adopted Heir of Heaven, though he cannot obey every Precept perfectly, yet he doth evangelically: 1. He approves of every Command, Rom. 7.16. I consent to the law that it […] good. 2. A Child of God delights in every Command, Psal. 119.97. O how I love thy precepts. 3. His desire is to obey every Command, Psal. 119.5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes. 4. Wherein he comes short, he looks up to Christ's Blood to make supply for his Defects. This is Evangelical Obedience, which though it be not to Satisfaction, it is to Acceptation.
Ans. An adopted Heir of Heaven, though he cannot obey every Precept perfectly, yet he doth evangelically: 1. He approves of every Command, Rom. 7.16. I consent to the law that it 〈…〉 good. 2. A Child of God delights in every Command, Psal. 119.97. O how I love thy precepts. 3. His desire is to obey every Command, Psal. 119.5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes. 4. Wherein he comes short, he looks up to Christ's Bloud to make supply for his Defects. This is Evangelical Obedience, which though it be not to Satisfaction, it is to Acceptation.
3. True Child-like Obedience is constant, Psal. 106.3. Blessed is he that doth righteousness at all times. Child-like Obedience is not like an high Choler in a Fit, which is soon over, but like a right Sanguine Complexion it abides; it is like the Fire on the Altar, which was kept always burning,