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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. 2. By what Arguments may we prove the Saints Perseverance?
Resp. 1. A veritate Dei, from the Truth of God. God hath both asserted it and promised it. 1. God hath asserted it, 1 John 3.9. His Seed remaineth in him, 1 John 2.27. The anointing ye have received of him abideth in you. 2. As God hath asserted it, so he hath promised it: The Truth of God, the most Orient Pearl of his Crown, is laid a Pawn in the Promise, John 10.28. I give unto them eternal ⟨p. 220⟩Life, and they shall never perish. Jer. 32.42. I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my Fear in their Hearts, that they shall not depart from me. God will so love his People, that he will not forsake them; and they shall so fear him that they shall not forsake him. If a Believer should not persevere, God should break his Promise, Hos. 2.19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever, in righteousness and loving kindness. God doth not Marry his People to himself, and then Divorce them; he hates putting away, Mal. 2.16. Gods love ties the Marriage Knot so fast, that neither Death nor Hell can break it asunder.
Resp. 1. A veritate Dei, from the Truth of God. God hath both asserted it and promised it. 1. God hath asserted it, 1 Iohn 3.9. His Seed remaineth in him,