A65285:1724
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.
2. THE Preface it self, which consists of three parts: 1. I am the Lord thy God: 2. Which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt: 3. Out of the House of Bondage.
1. I am the Lord thy God.] Where we have a Description of God: 1. By his Essential Greatness, I am the Lord: 2. By his relative Goodness, Thy God. 1. By his essential greatness, I am the Lord; or as in the Hebrew, Jehovah. This name of God sets forth his Majesty: Sanctius habitum fuit, saith Buxtorf, the name Johavah was had in more Reverence among the Jews, than any other name of God; it signifies Gods Self-sufficiency, Eternity, Independency, Immutability, Mal. 3.6.
1. I am the Lord thy God.] Where we have a Description of God: 1. By his Essential Greatness, I am the Lord: 2. By his relative Goodness, Thy God. 1. By his essential greatness, I am the Lord; or as in the Hebrew, Iehovah. This name of God sets forth his Majesty: Sanctius habitum fuit, saith Buxtorf, the name Iohavah was had in more Reverence among the Jews, than any other name of God; it signifies Gods Self-sufficiency, Eternity, Independency, Immutability, Mal. 3.6.
Use 1. If God be Jehovah, the Fountain of being, who can do what he will, let us fear this great Lord, Deut. 28.58. That thou mayest fear Hashem, Hanicbad Jehovah, this glorious and fearful name Jehovah.
Use 1. If God be Iehovah, the Fountain of being, who can do what he will, let us fear this great Lord,