A65285:2037
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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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.
3. He who loves God, is not much in love with any thing else; his love is very cool to worldly things; his love to God moves as the Sun in the Firmament swiftly, his love to the World moves as the Sun on the Dial, very slow: The love of the World eats out the Heart of Religion: It chokes good Affections, as the Earth puts out the Fire. The World was a dead thing to Paul, Gal. 6.14. I am Crucified to the World, and the World is Crucified to me. In Paul, we might see both the Picture and Pattern of a Mortified Man. He that loves God, useth the World, but chooseth God; the World is his Pension, but God is his Portion, Psal. 119.57. The World doth busy him, but God doth delight and satisfy him. He saith as David, Psal. 43.4. God my exceeding joy, the Gladness or Cream of my Joy.
3. He who loves God, is not much in love with any thing else; his love is very cool to worldly things; his love to God moves as the Sun in the Firmament swiftly, his love to the World moves as the Sun on the Dial, very slow: The love of the World eats out the Heart of Religion: It choaks good Affections, as the Earth puts out the Fire. The World was a dead thing to Paul, Gal. 6.14. I am Crucified to the World, and the World is Crucified to me. In Paul, we might see both the Picture and Pattern of a Mortified Man. He that loves God, useth the World, but chooseth God; the World is his Pension, but God is his Portion, Psal. 119.57. The World doth busie him, but God doth delight and satisfie him. He saith as David, Psal. 43.4. God my exceeding joy, the Gladness or Cream of my Joy.