A65285:1711
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
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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. If God spake all these Words, then we must hear all these Words; the Words which God speaks are too precious to be lost. As we would have God hear all our Words when we Pray, so we must hear all his Words when he speaks. We must not be as the deaf Adder which stoppeth her Ears. He that stops his Ears when God cries, shall cry himself and not be heard.
2. If God spake all these Words, then we must attend to them with Reverence. Every Word of the Moral Law is an Oracle from Heaven, God himself is the Preacher; this calls for Reverence. If a Judge gives a Charge upon the Bench, all attend with Reverence. In the Moral Law God himself gives a Charge, God spake all these Words; therefore with what Veneration should we attend? Moses was to put off his Shoes from his Feet (in token of Reverence,) when God was about to speak to him, Exod. 3.5, 6.
3. If God spake all these Words of the Moral Law, then we must remember them. Sure all God speaks is worth remembering; those Words are weighty which concern Salvation, Deut. 32.47. It is not a vain thing for you, because it is your Life. Our Memory should be like the Chest in the Ark where the Law was kept: Gods Oracles are Ornaments, and shall we forget them, Jer. 2.32. Can a Maid forget her Ornaments?
3. If God spake all these Words of the Moral Law, then we must remember them. Sure all God speaks is worth remembring; those Words are weighty which concern Salvation,