A65285:1217
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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4. Sanctification is an intense ardent thing. Qualitates sunt in subjecto intensivè, Rom. 12.11. [Greek or Hebrew], fervent in spirit. Sanctification is not a dead Form, but is inflamed into Zeal. We call Water hot, when it is so in the third or fourth degree. ⟨p. 140⟩He is holy whose Religion is heated to some degree, and his heart boils over in love to God.
4. Sanctification is an intense ardent thing. Qualitates sunt in subjecto intensivè, Rom. 12.11. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, fervent in spirit. Sanctification is not a dead Form, but is inflamed into Zeal. We call Water hot, when it is so in the third or fourth degree. ⟨p. 140⟩He is holy whose Religion is heated to some degree, and his heart boils over in love to God.
5. Sanctification is a beautiful thing, it makes God and Angels fall in love with us, Psal. 110.3. The beauties of holiness. As the Sun is to the World, so is Sanctification to the Soul, beautifying and bespangling it in God's Eyes. [Greek or Hebrew], Chrysost. That which makes God glorious, must needs make us so. Holiness is the most sparkling Jewel in the God-head; Exod. 15.11. Glorious in holiness. Sanctification is the First fruit of the Spirit; it is Heaven begun in the Soul. Sanctification and Glory differ only in degree; Sanctification is Glory in the Seed, and Glory is Sanctification in the Flower. Happiness is the quintessence of Holiness.