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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4 He who loves God, cannot live without him. Things we love, we know not how to be without. A Man can want Music or Flowers, but not Food. A Soul deeply in love with God, looks upon himself as undone without him, Psal. 143.7 Hide not thy Face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the Pit. He saith as Job, Ch•p. 30.28. I went Mourning without the Sun. I have Star-light, I want the Sun of Righteousness; I enjoy not the sweet Presence of my God. Is God our chief Good, that we cannot live without? Alas, how do they demonstrate they have no love to God, who can make a shift well enough to be without him? Let them but have Corn and Oil, and you shall never hear them complain of the want of God.

4 He who loves God, cannot live without him. Things we love, we know not how to be without. A Man can want Musick or Flowers, but not Food. A Soul deeply in love with God, looks upon himself as undone without him, Psal. 143.7 Hide not thy Face from me, lest I be like them that go down into the Pit. He saith as Iob, Ch•p. 30.28. I went Mourning without the Sun. I have Star-light, I want the Sun of Righteousness; I enjoy not the sweet Presence of my God. Is God our chief Good, that we cannot live without? Alas, how do they demonstrate they have no love to God, who can make a shift well enough to be without him? Let them but have Corn and Oyl, and you shall never hear them complain of the want of God.

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5. He who loves God, will be at any pains to get him. What pains doth the Merchant take? what hazards doth he run to have a rich Return from the Indies? Extremos currit Mercator […]. Jacob loved Rachel, and he would endure the Heat by Day, an• the Fro•t by Night that he might enjoy her. A Soul that loves God will take any pains for the Fruition of him,

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Of the Commandments.