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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Of PEACE.

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2. If you would have Peace, make War with Sin. Sin is the Achan that troubles us; the Trojan Horse. 2 Kings 9.22. When Joram saw Jehu, he said, is it Peace Jehu? And he answered what Peace, so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezebel and her Witchcrafts are so many? What Peace, as long as Sin remains unmortified? If you would have Peace with God, break the League with Sin. Give battle to Sin, it is a most just War, God hath proclaimed it. Nay, he hath promised us Victory, Sin shall not have Dominion, Rom. 6. No way to Peace but by maintaining a War with Sin, Pax nostra Bellum contra Daemonem, Tert. When Sampson had slain the Lion, there came Honey out of the Lion: By Slaying Sin, we get this Honey of Peace.

2. If you would have Peace, make War with Sin. Sin is the Achan that troubles us; the Trojan Horse. 2 Kings 9.22. When Joram saw Jehu, he said, is it Peace Jehu? And he answered what Peace, so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezabel and her Witchcrafts are so many? What Peace, as long as Sin remains unmortified? If you would have Peace with God, break the League with Sin. Give battel to Sin, it is a most just War, God hath proclaimed it. Nay, he hath promised us Victory, Sin shall not have Dominion, Rom. 6. No way to Peace but by maintaining a War with Sin, Pax nostra Bellum contra Daemonem, Tert. When Sampson had slain the Lion, there came Hony out of the Lion: By Slaying Sin, we get this Hony of Peace.

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3. Go to Christs Blood for Peace. Some go to fetch their Peace from their own Righteousness, not Christs; they go for Peace to their Holy Life, not Christ's Death. If Conscience be troubled, they strive to quiet it with their Duties; this is not the right way to Peace: Duties must not be neglected, nor yet idolized. Look up to the Blood of Sprinkling,

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