A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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SANCTIFICATION.SANTIFICATION.

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Fourth Sign of Sanctification is, the Spiritual Performance of Duties, viz. with the Heart, and from a Principle of Love. The sanctified Soul prays out of love to Prayer, he calls the Sabbath a Delight, Isa. 58.13. A Man may have Gifts to Admiration, he may speak as an Angel dropped out of Heaven, yet may be carnal in spiritual things, his Services do not come from a renewed Principle, nor is he carried upon the Wings of Delight in Duty. A sanctified Soul worships God in the Spirit, 1 Pet. 2.5. God doth not judge of our Duties by the length, but by the love.

Fourth Sign of Sanctification is, the Spiritual Performance of Duties, viz. with the Heart, and from a Principle of Love. The sanctified Soul prays out of love to Prayer, he calls the Sabbath a Delight, Isa. 58.13. A Man may have Gifts to Admiration, he may speak as an Angel drop'd out of Heaven, yet may be carnal in spiritual things, his Services do not come from a renewed Principle, nor is he carried upon the Wings of Delight in Duty. A sanctified Soul worships God in the Spirit, 1 Pet. 2.5. God doth not judge of our Duties by the length, but by the love.

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Fifth Sign, A well-ordered Life, 1 Pet. 1.15. Be ye holy in all manner of conversation. Where the Heart is sanctified, the Life will be so too: the Temple had Gold without as well as within. As in a Piece of Coin, there's not only the King's Image within the Ring, but his Superscription too without. So where there is Sanctification there is not only God's Image in the Heart, but a Superscription of Holiness written in the Life. Some say they have good Hearts, but their Lives are Vicious, Prov. 30.12

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