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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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3. Sanctification makes us resemble God. It was Adam's sin that he aspired to be like God in Omniscience, but we must endeavour to be like him in Sanctity. It is only a clear Glass in which you can see a face; it is only an holy Heart in which something of God can be seen; there is nothing of God to be seen in an unsanctified Man, you may see Satan's Picture in him, Envy is the Devil's Eye,, Hypocrisy his cloven Foot, but nothing of God's Image can be seen in him. You can see no more of God in him, then you can see a Man's face in a Glass that is dusty and foul.
3. Sanctification makes us resemble God. It was Adam's sin that he aspired to be like God in Omnisciency, but we must endeavour to be like him in Sanctity. It is only a clear Glass in which you can see a face; it is only an holy Heart in which something of God can be seen; there is nothing of God to be seen in an unsanctified Man, you may see Satan's Picture in him, Envy is the Devil's Eye,, Hypocrisie his cloven Foot, but nothing of God's Image can be seen in him. You can see no more of God in him, then you can see a Man's face in a Glass that is dusty and foul.
4. Sanctification is that God bears a great love to. Not any outward Ornaments, high blood, or worldly grandeur, draws God's love, but an heart embellished with holiness. Christ never admired any thing, but the beauty of holiness; he slighted the glorious buildings of the Temple, but admired the Woman's Faith, O woman, great is thy faith! Amor fundatur similitudine. A King delights to see his Image upon a piece of Coin: where God sees his likeness, there he gives his love. The Lord hath two Heavens he dwells in, and the holy Heart is one of them.
4. Sanctification is that God bears a great love to. Not any outward Ornaments, high blood, or worldly grandure, draws God's love, but an heart embellished with holiness. Christ never admired any thing, but the beauty of holiness; he slighted the glorious buildings of the Temple, but admired the Womans Faith, O woman, great is thy faith! Amor fundatur similitudine. A King delights to see his Image upon a piece of Coin: where God sees his likeness, there he gives his love. The Lord hath two Heavens he dwells in, and the holy Heart is one of them.