A65285:1369
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. These are satisfying and filling Joys, John 16.24. Ask that your Joy may be full. Worldly Joys can no more fill the Heart, than a drop can fill a Cistern; they may please the Palate or Fancy, (Plato calls them Pictures of Joy) not satisfy the Soul, Eccles. 1.8. The Eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the Ear with hearing; but the Joys of God satisfy. Psal. 94.19. Thy Comforts delight my Soul. There is as much difference between Spiritual Joys and Earthly, as between a Banquet that is eaten, and one that is painted on the Wall.
5. These are satisfying and filling Joys, Iohn 16.24. Ask that your Ioy may be full. Worldly Joys can no more fill the Heart, than a drop can fill a Cistern; they may please the Pallat or Fancy, (Plato calls them Pictures of Joy) not satisfie the Soul, Eccles. 1.8. The Eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the Ear with hearing; but the Joys of God satisfie. Psal. 94.19. Thy Comforts delight my Soul. There is as much difference between Spiritual Joys and Earthly, as between a Banquet that is eaten, and one that is painted on the Wall.
6. These are stronger Joys than Worldly, Heb. 6.18. Strong Consolation. They are strong indeed, that can bear up a Christians Heart in Trials and Afflictions, 1 Thess. 1.6. Having received the Word in much Affliction, [Greek or Hebrew], with Joy. These are Roses that grow in Winter; these Joys can sweeten the Waters of Marah; he that hath these can gather Grapes of Thorns, and fetch Honey out of the Carcass of a Lyon,