A65285:1469
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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Thirdly, Beware of a Vile Heart of Unbelief. Heb. 3.12. Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil Heart of Unbelief, departing from the Living God. Whence is Apostasy but from Incredulity? Men do not believe the Truth, and then they fall from the Truth. Unbelieving and Unstable go together, Psal. 78.22. They believed not in God, ver. 41. They turned back.
Thirdly, Beware of a Vile Heart of Unbelief. Heb. 3.12. Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil Heart of Unbelief, departing from the Living God. Whence is Apostacy but from Incredulity? Men do not believe the Truth, and then they fall from the Truth. Unbelieving and Unstable go together, Psal. 78.22. They believed not in God, ver. 41. They turned back.
2. If you would be Pillars in the Temple of God, and persevere in Sanctity,
First, Look that you enter into Religion upon a right ground;1 be well grounded in the distinct knowledge of God; you must know the Love of the Father, the Merit of the Son, the Efficacy of the Holy Ghost. Such as know not God aright, will by degrees fall off. The Samaritans sometimes sided with the Jews when they were in favour, afterwards disclaimed all Kindred with them, when Antiochus persecuted the Jews: And no wonder the Samaritans were no more fixed in Religion, if you consider what Christ saith of the Samaritans,