A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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A Believers Privilege at Death.

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6. Believers at Death shall gain Perfection of Holiness. Here Grace was but in Cunabulis, in its Cradle, very Imperfect; we cannot write a Copy of Holiness without Blotting: Believers are said to receive but Primitias Spiritus, the first Fruits of the Spirit, Rom. 8.23. But at Death the Saints shall arrive at Perfection, their Knowledge clear, their Sanctity perfect; their Sun shall be in its full Meridian Splendour. They need not then pray for Increase of Grace; they shall Love God as much as they would Love him, and as much as he desires to have them Love him; they shall be then in respect of Holiness [Greek or Hebrew] as the Angels of God.

6. Believers at Death shall gain Perfection of Holiness. Here Grace was but in Cunabulis, in its Cradle, very Imperfect; we cannot write a Copy of Holiness without Blotting: Believers are said to receive but Primitias Spiritus, the first Fruits of the Spirit, Rom. 8.23. But at Death the Saints shall arrive at Perfection, their Knowledge clear, their Sanctity perfect; their Sun shall be in its full Meridian Splendour. They need not then pray for Encrease of Grace; they shall Love God as much as they would Love him, and as much as he desires to have them Love him; they shall be then in respect of Holiness 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as the Angels of God.

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7. At Death the Saints shall gain a Royal Magnificent Feast. I told you before what a glorious Palace they shall have; but a Man may starve in a House if there be no Cheer. The Saints at Death shall have a Royal Banquet, shadowed out in Scripture by a Marriage Supper, Rev. 19.9. Bullinger and Gregory the Great, understand by that Marriage-Supper of the Lamb, the stately Magnificent Festival ⟨p. 227⟩

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A Believers Privilege at Death.