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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Of LOVE.

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5. Love to God must be Superlative: God is the Quintessence of Beauty, a whole Paradise of Delight; and he must have a Priority in our Love: Our Love to God must be above all things besides; as the Oil swims above the Water: We must love God above Estate, Relations; great is the Love to Relations. There is a Story in the French Academy, of a Daughter, who when her Father was condemned to dye by Famine, gave him suck with her own Breasts. But our Love to God must be above Father and Mother, Matt. 10.37. We may give the Creature the Milk of our Love, God must have the Cream: The Spouse keeps the Juice of her Pomegranate for Christ, Cant. 8.2.

5. Love to God must be Superlative: God is the Quintessence of Beauty, a whole Paradise of Delight; and he must have a Priority in our Love: Our Love to God must be above all things besides; as the Oyl swims above the Water: We must love God above Estate, Relations; great is the Love to Relations. There is a Story in the French Academy, of a Daughter, who when her Father was condemned to dye by Famine, gave him suck with her own Breasts. But our Love to God must be above Father and Mother, Matt. 10.37. We may give the Creature the Milk of our Love, God must have the Cream: The Spouse keeps the Juice of her Pomgranate for Christ, Cant. 8.2.

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6. Our Love to God must be constant, like the Fire the vestal Virgins kept in Rome, which did not go out. Love must be like the motion of the Pulse, it beats as long as there is Life, Cant. 8.7. Many Waters cannot quench Love, not the Waters of Persecution,

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