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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Observ. 2. One special sin God visits for, is Idolatry and Image-worship. Visiting the iniquity of the Fathers. Most of Gods envenomed Arrows have been shot among Idolaters, Jer. 7.12. Go now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it. God for Israels Idolatry, suffered their Army to be routed, their Priests slain, the Ark taken Captive, and we never read that the Ark returned to Shiloh any more. Jerusalem was the most Famous Metropolis of the World: There was the Temple, Psal. 122.4. Whither the Tribes go up, the Tribes of the Lord. Yet for their high places and Images, their City was besieged and taken by the Chaldean Forces, 2 Kings 25.4. When Images were set up in Constantinople, the chief Seat of the Eastern Empire, this City which was in the eye of the World impregnable, was taken by the Turks, and many cruelly Massacred. Then the Turks, in their Triumphs, reproached the Idolatrous Christians, causing an Image or Crucifix to be carried through the Streets in Contempt, and throwing Dirt upon it, cried, This is the God of the Christians: Here was Gods Visitation for their Idolatry. God hath set special marks of his Wrath upon Idolaters. At a place called Epoletium there perished by an Earth-quake 350 Persons, while they were offering Sacrifice to Idols. Idolatry hath brought Misery upon the Eastern Churches, it removed the golden Candlesticks of Asia. This Iniquity God visits for.

Observ. 2. One special sin God visits for, is Idolatry and Image-worship. Visiting the iniquity of the Fathers. Most of Gods invenomed Arrows have been shot among Idolaters, Ier. 7.12. Go now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it. God for Israels Idolatry, suffered their Army to be routed, their Priests slain, the Ark taken Captive, and we never read that the Ark returned to Shiloh any more. Hierusalem was the most Famous Metropolis of the World: There was the Temple, Psal. 122.4. Whither the Tribes go up, the Tribes of the Lord. Yet for their high places and Images, their City was besieged and taken by the Chaldean Forces,

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Of the Commandments.