A65285:2008
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Quest. How may I know my Sins are pardoned?
Resp. Where God removes the guilt, he breaks the power of Sin, Mic. 7.19. He will have Compassion, he will subdue our Iniquities. With Pardoning Love God gives Subduing Grace.
9. God shows his Mercy in Sanctifying us, Lev. 20.8. I am the Lord that sanctify you. This is the partaking of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. Gods Spirit is a Spirit of Consecration; though it Sanctifies us but in part, yet in every part, 1 Thes. 5.23. This is such a Mercy, that God cannot give in Anger, if we are Sanctified, then we are Elected, 2 Thes. 2.13. God hath chosen you, to Salvation through Sanctification. This doth disponere ad Coelum, it prepares for Happiness, as the Seed prepares ⟨p. 287⟩for Harvest. When the Virgins had been Anointed and Perfumed, then they were to stand before the King, Esther 2.12. So when we have had the Anointing of God, then we shall stand before the King of Heaven.