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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:1960p. 281¶1

1. Get good Principles, that you may be able to oppose the Gain-sayer. Whence doth the Popish Religion get ground? not from the goodness of their cause, but from the ignorance of the People.

:1961p. 281¶2

2. Get love to God. The Wife that loves her Husband is safe from the Adulterer; and the Soul that loves Christ is safe from the Idolater.

:1962p. 281–282¶3

3. Pray that God will keep you. Though it is true, there is nothing in an Image to tempt; for if we pray to an Image, it cannot hear, and if we pray to God by an Image, he will not hear; I say there is nothing to tempt; yet we know not our own Hearts, or how soon we may be drawn to Vanity, if God leave us; therefore pray that you be not enticed to false Worship, or receive ⟨p. 282⟩the Mark of the Beast in your right hand or Forehead: Pray, Psal. 119.117. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. Lord, let me neither mistake my way for want of Light, or leave the true way for want of Courage.

:1963p. 282¶2

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Of the Ten Commandments.