A65285:1894
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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Resp. Because the Commandment concerns every one, and God would have you take it as spoken to you by Name: Though we are forward to take Privileges to our selves, yet we are apt to shift off Duty from our selves to others: Therefore the Commandment runs in the second Person, Thou and Thou, that every one may know that the Commandment is spoken to him, as it were by name. And so I come to the Commandment, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. This Commandment may well lead the Van, and be set in the Front of all the Commandments, because it is the Foundation of all true Religion. The sum of this Commandment is, that we should sanctify God in our Hearts, and give him a Precedency above all created Beings. There are two Branches ⟨p. 273⟩of this Commandment. 1. That we must have One God. 2. That we must have but one. Or thus: 1. That we must have God for our God: 2. That we must have no other. 1. That we must have God for our God: It is manifest we must have a God, and who is God save the Lord? 2 Sam. 22.32. The Lord Jehovah (one God in three Persons) is the true, living, eternal God, and him must we have for our God.
Resp. Because the Commandment concerns every one, and God would have you take it as spoken to you by Name: Though we are forward to take Privileges to our selves, yet we are apt to shift off Duty from our selves to others: Thefore the Commandment runs in the second Person, Thou and Thou, that every one may know that the Commandment is spoken to him, as it were by name. And so I come to the Commandment, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. This Commandment may well lead the Van, and be set in the Front of all the Commandments, because it is the Foundation of all true Religion. The summ of this Commandment is, that we should sanctifie God in our Hearts, and give him a Precedency above all created Beings. There are two Branches ⟨p. 273⟩of this Commandment. 1. That we must have One God. 2. That we must have but one. Or thus: 1. That we must have God for our God: 2. That we must have no other. 1. That we must have God for our God: It is manifest we must have a God, and who is God save the Lord? 2 Sam. 22.32. The Lord Iehovah (one God in three Persons) is the true, living, eternal God, and him must we have for our God.