A65285:1484
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. To me to live is Christ, i. e. Christ is the Joy of my Life, Psal. 42.4. God my exceeding Joy, or the Cream of my Joy. A Christian rejoiceth in Christs Righteousness; he can rejoice in Christ when Worldly Joys are gone. When the Tulip in a Garden withers, a Man rejoiceth in his Jewels. When Relations Dye, a Saint can rejoice in Christ the Pearl of Price; in this Sense to me to live is Christ, he is the Joy of my Life. If Christ were gone, my Life would be a Death to me.
3. To me to live is Christ, i. e. Christ is the Joy of my Life, Psal. 42.4. God my exceeding Ioy, or the Cream of my Joy. A Christian rejoyceth in Christs Righteousness; he can rejoyce in Christ when Worldly Joys are gone. When the Tulip in a Garden withers, a Man rejoyceth in his Jewels. When Relations Dye, a Saint can rejoyce in Christ the Pearl of Price; in this Sense to me to live is Christ, he is the Joy of my Life. If Christ were gone, my Life would be a Death to me.
Use. It should exhort us all to labour to say as the Apostle, to me to live is Christ. Christ is the Principle of my Life, the End of my Life, the Joy of my Life, to me to live is Christ; and then we may comfortably conclude, that to Dye, shall be Gain.
Secondly. And that brings me to the Second part of the Text, [Greek or Hebrew], and to Dye is Gain.
Secondly. And that brings me to the Second part of the Text, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and to Dye is Gain.