A65285:1715
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.
5. If God spake all these words▪ then love the Commandments, Psal. 119.97. O how love I thy Law? It is my Meditation all the day. Consider how I love thy Precepts, Psal. 119.159. The Moral Law is the Copy of Gods Will; our Spiritual Directory; it shows what Sins to avoid, what Duties to pursue: The Ten Commandments are a Chain of Pearl to adorn us: They are our Treasury to enrich ⟨p. 251⟩us: They are more precious than Lands of Spices or Rocks of Diamonds, Psal. 119.72. The Law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of Gold and Silver. The Law of God hath Truth and Goodness in it, Nehem. 9.13. Truth, for God spake it; and Goodness, for there is nothing the Commandment enjoins but is for our good: O then let this command our Love.
5. If God spake all these words▪ then love the Commandments, Psal. 119.97. O how love I thy Law? It is my Meditation all the day. Consider how I love thy Precepts, Psal. 119.159. The Moral Law is the Copy of Gods Will; our Spiritual Directory; it shews what Sins to avoid, what Duties to pursue: The Ten Commandments are a Chain of Pearl to adorn us: They are our Treasury to enrich ⟨p. 251⟩us: They are more precious than Lands of Spices or Rocks of Diamonds, Psal. 119.72. The Law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of Gold and Silver. The Law of God hath Truth and Goodness in it, Nehem. 9.13