A65285:1847
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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If Satan be at the Sinners right hand, let the Sinner take heed he be not set on Gods left hand: Is not this a case to be bewailed, to see Men taken Captive by Satan at his will, 2 Tim. 2.26. He leads Sinners as Slaves before him in Triumph: He possesseth them; If People should see but their Beasts bewitched and possessed of the Devil, they would be much troubled: Yet their Souls are possessed by Satan, but they are not sensible. [What can be worse than to be in the House of Bondage, to have the Devil hurry Men on in their Lusts to Perdition?] Sinners are willingly enslaved to Satan, they love their Goaler; are content to sit quietly under Satan's Jurisdiction; they choose this Bramble to rule them, though within a while Fire will come out of this Bramble to devour them, Judges 9. Now what an infinite Mercy of God is it, when he brings poor Souls out of this House of Bondage, when he gives them a Goal delivery from the Prince of Darkness! Jesus Christ Redeems Captives: He Ransoms Sinners by Price, and Rescues them by Force: As David took a Lamb out of the Lyons Mouth, 1 Sam. 17.34. So Christ rescues Souls out of the Mouth of this Roaring Lyon. O what a Mercy is it, to be brought out of the House of Bondage, to be taken from being made Captives to the Prince of the Air, and to be made Subjects of the Prince of Peace! And this is done by the preaching of the Word, Acts 26.18. To turn them from the power of Satan unto God.
If Satan be at the Sinners right hand, let the Sinner take heed he be not set on Gods left hand: Is not this a case to be bewailed, to see Men taken Captive by Satan at his will, 2 Tim. 2.26. He leads Sinners as Slaves before him in Triumph: He possesseth them; If People should see but their Beasts bewitched and possessed of the Devil, they would be much troubled: Yet their Souls are possessed by Satan, but they are not sensible. [What can be worse than to be in the House of Bondage, to have the Devil hurry Men on in their Lusts to Perdition?] Sinners are willingly inslav'd to Satan, they love their Goaler; are content to sit quietly under Satans Jurisdiction; they choose this Bramble to rule them, though within a while Fire will come out of this Bramble to devour them,