A65285:1203
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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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.
Quest. What are the benefits which accrue to God's Children?
Ans. They have great Immunities: King's Children have great Privileges and Freedoms; they do not pay Custom, Mat. 17.6. God's Children are privileged Persons; they are privileged from the hurt of every thing, Luke 10.19. Nothing shall by any means hurt you. Hit you it may, not hurt you: Psal. 91.10. There shall no evil befall thee. God saith not, no Affliction shall befall his Children, but no Evil; the Hurt and Poison of it is taken away. Affliction to a wicked Man hath Evil in it, it makes him worse; it makes him curse and blaspheme, Rev. 16.9. Men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God. But no Evil befalls a Child of God, he is bettered by Affliction, Heb. 12.10. The Furnace makes Gold purer. Again, no Evil befalls the Adopted, because no Condemnation, Rom. 8.33. It is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth? What a blessed Privilege is this, to be freed from the Sting of Affliction, and the Curse of the Law; to be in such a Condition that nothing can hurt one. When the Dragon hath poisoned the Water, the Unicorn with his Horn doth extract and draw out the Poison; so Jesus Christ hath drawn out the Poison of every Affliction, that it cannot prejudice the Saints.
Ans. They have great Immunities: King's Children have great Priviledges and Freedoms; they do not pay Custom, Mat. 17.6. God's Children are priviledged Persons; they are priviledged from the hurt of every thing,