A65285:1371
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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7. These are unwearied Joys; other Joys, when in Excess oft cause a Loathing, we are apt to Surfeit on them; too much Honey nauseates; one may be tired with Pleasure as well as Labour: Xerxes offered a Reward to him that could find out a new Pleasure: But the Joys of God, though they satisfy, yet they never Surfeit; a drop of Joy is sweet, but the more of this Wine the better; such as drink of the Joys of Heaven are never cloyed; the Satiety is without Loathing, because they still desire the Joy wherewith they are satiated.
7. These are unwearied Joys; other Joys, when in Excess oft cause a Loathing, we are apt to Surfeit on them; too much Hony nauseates; one may be tired with Pleasure as well as Labour: Xerxes offered a Reward to him that could find out a new Pleasure: But the Joys of God, though they satisfie, yet they never Surfeit; a drop of Joy is sweet, but the more of this Wine the better; such as drink of the Joys of Heaven are never cloy'd; the Satiety is without Loathing, because they still desire the Joy wherewith they are satiated.
8. These are more abiding Joys, worldly Joys are soon gone; such as Crown themselves with Rose-buds, and bath in the perfumed Waters of Pleasure, yet these Joys which seem to be Sweet are Swift; like Meteors, they give a bright and sudden Flash, and then disappear; but the Joy which Believers have, are abiding; they are a Blossom of Eternity, a Pledge and Earnest of those Rivers of Pleasure which run at Gods right Hand for ever more.
8. These are more abiding Joys, worldly Joys are soon gone; such as Crown themselves with Rose-buds, and bath in the perfum'd Waters of Pleasure, yet these Joys which seem to be Sweet are Swift; like Meteors, they give a bright and sudden Flash, and then disappear; but the Joy which Believers have, are abiding; they are a Blossom of Eternity, a Pledge and Earnest of those Rivers of Pleasure which run at Gods right Hand for ever more.