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 Ten Commandments.

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2. The second Reason against Image-worship, Visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children, unto the third and fourth Generation.] There is a Two-fold Visiting. 1. There is Gods visiting in Mercy, Gen. 50.25. God will surely visit ⟨p. 283⟩you. That is, he will bring you into the Land of Canaan, the Type of Heaven. Thus God hath visited us with the Sun-beams of his Favour: He hath made us swim in a Sea of Mercy: This is an happy Visitation. 2. There is Gods visiting in Anger, Jer. 5.9. Shall I not visit for these things? That is, Gods visiting with the Rod; and Isa. 10.3. What will ye do in the day of Visitation? That is, in the day when God shall visit with his Judgments. Thus Gods visiting is taken here, in this Commandment, visiting Iniquity, that is, punishing Iniquity. Observe here three things.

2. The second Reason against Image-worship, Visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children, unto the third and fourth Generation.] There is a Two-fold Visiting. 1. There is Gods visiting in Mercy, Gen. 50.25. God will surely visit ⟨p. 283⟩you. That is, he will bring you into the Land of Canaan, the Type of Heaven. Thus God hath visited us with the Sun-beams of his Favour: He hath made us swim in a Sea of Mercy: This is an happy Visitation. 2. There is Gods visiting in Anger, Ier. 5.9. Shall I not visit for these things? That is, Gods visiting with the Rod; and Isa. 10.3. What will ye do in the day of Visitation? That is, in the day when God shall visit with his Judgments. Thus Gods visiting is taken here, in this Commandment, visiting Iniquity, that is, punishing Iniquity. Observe here three things.

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Of the Commandments.