A65285:1284
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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Effect 6. Assurance would bear up the Heart in Sufferings, it would make a Christian endure Troubles with Patience and Cheerfulness (with Patience) Heb. 10.36. Ye have need of Patience. There are some Meats (we say) are hard of Digestion, and only a good Stomach will concoct them: Affliction is a Meat hard of Digestion, but Patience (like a good Stomach) will be able to digest it; and whence comes Patience but from Assurance? Rom. 5.5. Tribulation worketh Patience, because the Love of God is shed abroad in our Hearts, with cheerfulness. Assurance is like the Mariners Lantern on the Deck, which gives light in a dark night. Assurance gives the light of Comfort in Affliction, Heb. 10.34. ye took joyfully the spoiling of your Goods, knowing in your selves, &c. there was Assurance. He that hath Assurance can rejoice in Tribulation, he can gather Grapes of Thorns, and Honey out of the Lyons Carcass. Latimer, When I sit alone, and can have a settled Assurance of the State of my Soul, ⟨p. 204⟩and know that God is mine, I can Laugh at all Troubles, and nothing can daunt me.
Effect 6. Assurance would bear up the Heart in Sufferings, it would make a Christian endure Troubles with Patience and Chearfulness (with Patience) Heb. 10.36. Ye have need of Patience. There are some Meats (we say) are hard of Digestion, and only a good Stomach will concoct them: Affliction is a Meat hard of Digestion, but Patience (like a good Stomach) will be able to digest it; and whence comes Patience but from Assurance? Rom. 5.5. Tribulation worketh Patience, because the Love of God is shed abroad in our Hearts, with chearfulness. Assurance is like the Mariners Lanthorn on the Deck, which gives light in a dark night. Assurance gives the light of Comfort in Affliction, Heb. 10.34. ye took joyfully the spoiling of your Goods, knowing in your selves, &c. there was Assurance. He that hath Assurance can rejoyce in Tribulation, he can gather Grapes of Thorns, and Hony out of the Lyons Carcass. Latimer, When I sit alone, and can have a setled Assurance of the State of my Soul,