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 after Death.

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Use 2. You who are Real Saints, whose Hearts are purified by Faith, spend much time in musing upon these glorious Benefits which you shall have by Christ at Death. Thus might you by a Contemplative Life, begin the Life of Angels here, and be in Heaven before your time. Eudoxus was so affected with the Glory of the Sun, that he thought he was born only to behold it. What should we contemplate but Celestial Glory, when we shall see God Face to Face? David was got above the ordinary sort of Men, he was in the Altitudes, •sal. 139.18. I am ever with thee. A true Saint every Day takes a turn in Heaven, his Thoughts and Desires are like Cherubims flying up to Paradise. Can Men of the World so delight in looking upon their Bags of Gold, and Fields of Corn, and shall not the Heirs of Heaven take more delight in Contemplating their Glory in Reversion? Could we send forth Faith as a Spy, and every Day view the Glory of the Jerusalem above, how would it rejoice us, as it doth the Heir, to think of the Inheritance which is to come into his Hand shortly?

Use 2. You who are Real Saints, whose Hearts are purified by Faith, spend much time in musing upon these glorious Benefits which you shall have by Christ at Death. Thus might you by a Contemplative Life, begin the Life of Angels here, and be in Heaven before your time. Eudoxus was so affected with the Glory of the Sun, that he thought he was born only to behold it. What should we contemplate but Caelestial Glory, when we shall see God Face to Face? David was got above the ordinary sort of Men, he was in the Altitudes, •sal. 139.18. I am ever with thee. A true Saint every Day takes a turn in Heaven, his Thoughts and Desires are like Cherubims flying up to Paradise. Can Men of the World so delight in looking upon their Bags of Gold, and Fields of Corn, and shall not the Heirs of Heaven take more delight in Contemplating their Glory in Reversion? Could we send forth Faith as a Spy, and every Day view the Glory of the Ierusalem above, how would it rejoyce us, as it doth the Heir, to think of the Inheritance which is to come into his Hand shortly?

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Use 3. Consolation. This is that which may comfort the Saints in Two Cases.

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A Body of Practical Divinity

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