A65285:1921
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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3. If we trust in our Wisdom, we make it a God, Jer. 9.23. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. Glorying is the height of Confidence; many a Man doth make an Idol of his Wit and Parts: He Deifies himself: But how oft doth God take the Wi•e in their own Craftiness, Job 5.13. Ahithophel had a great Wit, his Council was as the Oracle of God, but his Wit brought him to the Halter, 2 Sam. 17.23.
3. If we trust in our Wisdom, we make it a God, Ier. 9.23. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. Glorying is the highth of Confidence; many a Man doth make an Idol of his Wit and Parts: He Deifies himself: But how oft doth God take the Wi•e in their own Craftiness, Iob 5.13. Achitophel had a great Wit, his Council was as the Oracle of God, but his Wit brought him to the Halter, 2 Sam. 17.23.
4. If we trust in our Civility, we make it a God: Many trust to this, none can charge them with gross Sin. Civility is but Nature refined and cultivated; a Man may be washed and not changed: His Life may be civil, yet there may be some reigning Sin in his Heart: The Pharisee could say, I am no Adulterer, Luke 18.11. but he could not say, I am not proud: To trust to Civility, is to trust to a Spiders Web.