A65285:2065
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.
3. There is that in Gods Commandments which may make us willing, they are not burdensome.
1. For first a Christian (so far as he is regenerate) consents to Gods Commands, Rom. 7.16. [Greek or Hebrew]. I consent to the Law, that it is good. What is done with consent is no burden. If a Virgin gives her consent, the Match goes on cheerfully. If a Subject consent to his Princes Laws (as seeing the Equity and Rationality in them) then they are not irksome. A regenerate Person in his Judgment approves, and in his Will consents to Gods Commandments, therefore they are not burdensome.
1. For first a Christian (so far as he is regenerate) consents to Gods Commands, Rom. 7.16. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. I consent to the Law, that it is good. What is done with consent is no burden. If a Virgin gives her consent, the Match goes on chearfully. If a Subject consent to his Princes Laws (as seeing the Equity and Rationality in them) then they are not irksome. A regenerate Person in his Judgment approves, and in his Will consents to Gods Commandments, therefore they are not burdensome.
2. Gods Commandments are sweetened with Joy and Peace. Cicero questions whether that can properly be called a Burden, which one carries with Delight and Pleasure. Utrum onus appellatur quod laetitia fertur. If a Man carries a Bag of Money given him, it is heavy, but the Delight takes off the Burden. When God gives inward Joy, that makes the Commandment delightful,