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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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2. You are within a few Days march of Heaven. Salvation is near to you; Rom. 13.11. Now is our Salvation nearer than when we believed. Christians, it is but a while and you shall have done Weeping and Praying, and be triumphing. You shall put off your Mourning, and put on white Robes; you shall put off your Armour, and put on a Victorious Crown. You who have made a good Progress in Religion, you are now almost ready to Commence and take your Degree of Glory; now is your Salvation nearer than when you began to believe. When a Man is almost at the end of a Race, will he now tire, or faint away? O labour to persevere, your Salvation is now nearer; you have but a little way to go, and you will set your Foot in Heaven. Though the way be up-Hill and full of Thorns, viz. Sufferings, yet you have gone the greatest part of your way, and shortly you shall rest from your Labours.
3. How sad it is not to persevere in Holiness; you expose your selves to the Reproaches of Men, and the Rebukes of God.
First, To the Reproaches of Men. They will divide both you and your Profession, Luke 14.28. This Man began to Build, and was not able to finish. Such is he who begins in Religion, and doth not persevere. He is the Ludibrium and Derision of all.