A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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Of the Commandments.

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3. To make God to be a God to us, is to enter into a Solemn Covenant with him, that he shall be our God: After Choice follows the Marriage Covenant: As God makes a Covenant with us, Isa. 55.3. I will make an everlasting Covenant with you, even the sure Mercies of David: So we make a Covenant with him, 2 Chron. 15.12. They entered into Covenant to seek the Lord God of their Fathers. And Isa. 44.5. One shall say, I am the Lords: And another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord. Like Soldiers that subscribe their Names in the Muster-Roll. This Covenant, that God shall be our God, we have oft renewed in the Lords-Supper: And it is like a Seal to a Bond, to bind us fast to God, and to keep us that we do not depart from him.

3. To make God to be a God to us, is to enter into a Solemn Covenant with him, that he shall be our God: After Choice follows the Marriage Covenant: As God makes a Covenant with us, Isa. 55.3. I will make an everlasting Covenant with you, even the sure Mercies of David: So we make a Covenant with him, 2 Chron. 15.12. They entred into Covenant to seek the Lord God of their Fathers. And Isa. 44.5. One shall say, I am the Lords: And another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord. Like Soldiers that subscribe their Names in the Muster-Roll. This Covenant, that God shall be our God, we have oft renewed in the Lords-Supper: And it is like a Seal to a Bond, to bind us fast to God, and to keep us that we do not depart from him.

:1896p. 273–274¶4

4. To make God to be a God to us, is to give him Adoration: Which consists 1. in reverencing of him,

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Of the Commandments.