A65285:1525
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.
1. The first and most sublime part of the Glory of Heaven is the full and sweet Fruition of God: Ipse Deus sufficit ad praemium, Aug. We are apt to think the Happiness of Heaven is in being free from Pain and Misery, but the very [Greek or Hebrew] and Quintessence of Happiness, is the Enjoyment and Fruition of God; this is the Diamond Ring of Glory God is an infinite inexhaustible Fountain of Joy; and to have him is to have all. Now the enjoying of God implies three things.
1. The first and most sublime part of the Glory of Heaven is the full and sweet Fruition of God: Ipse Deus sufficit ad praemium, Aug. We are apt to think the Happiness of Heaven is in being free from Pain and Misery, but the very 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and Quintessence of Happiness, is the Enjoyment and Fruition of God; this is the Diamond Ring of Glory God is an infinite inexhaustible Fountain of Joy; and to have him is to have all. Now the enjoying of God implies three things.
1. It implies our seeing of God. 2. Our loving of God. 3. Gods loving of us.
1. The enjoying of God implies our seeing of God, 1 John 3.2. We shall see him as he is: Here we see him as he is not; not mutable, mortal; there as he is.
1. The enjoying of God implies our seeing of God, 1 Iohn 3.2. We shall see him as he is: Here we see him as he is not; not mutable, mortal; there as he is.