A65285:1416
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.
Quest. 5. How shall we know whether we grow in Grace?
Resp. For the deciding of this Question, I shall First show the signs of our not not growing: Secondly, Of our growing.
Resp. For the deciding of this Question, I shall First shew the signs of our not not growing: Secondly, Of our growing.
1. The Signs of our not growing in Grace, but rather falling into a Spiritual Consumption.
Sign 1. When we have lost our Spiritual Appetite. A Consumptive Person hath not that Stomach to his Meat as formerly. Perhaps Christian, thou canst remember the time when thou didst Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness; thou didst come to Ordinances with such a Stomach as to a Feast, but now it is otherwise. Christ is not so prized, nor his Ordinances so loved; a sad presage, Grace is on the declining Hand; thou art in a deep Consumption. A sign David was near his Grave, when he covered him with Clothes and he got no heat, 1 Kings 1.1. So when a Person is plied with hot Clothes, I mean Ordinances, yet he hath no heat of Affection to Spiritual things; this is a sign he is declining in Grace.