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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. God gives strength to do what he requires. The Law called for Obedience, but though it required Brick it gave no Straw. But in the Gospel, God with his Commands gives power, Ezek. 18.31. Make ye a new Heart. Alas it is above our strength, we may as well make a new World, Ezek. 36.26. I will give you a new Heart. God commands us to cleanse our selves, Isa. 1.16. Wash ye, make you clean. But who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job 14.4. Therefore the Precept is turned into a Promise, Ezek. 36.25. From all your filthiness will I cleanse you. When the Child cannot go, the Nurse takes it by the Hand, Hos. 11.3. I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms.
3. God gives strength to do what he requires. The Law called for Obedience, but though it required Brick it gave no Straw. But in the Gospel, God with his Commands gives power, Ezek. 18.31. Make ye a new Heart. Alas it is above our strength, we may as well make a new World, Ezek. 36.26. I will give you a new Heart. God commands us to cleanse our selves, Isa. 1.16. Wash ye, make you clean. But who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Job 14.4. Therefore the Precep• is turn'd into a Promise, Ezek. 36.25. From all your filthiness will I cleanse you. When the Child cannot go, the Nurse takes it by the Hand,