A65285:2073
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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Use. It reproves them who live in a wilful breach of Gods Commandments, in Malice, Uncleanness, Intemperance; they walk Antipodes to the Commandment. To live in a wilful breach of the Commandment, is
First, Against Reason. Are we able to stand it out against God, 1 Cor. 10.22. Do we provoke the Lord, are we stronger than he? Can we measure Arms with God? Can Impotency stand against Omnipotency? A Sinner in acting Sin, acts against Reason.
Secondly, It is against Equity. We have our Being from God, and is it not equal we should obey him who gives us our Being? We have all our Subsistence from God, and is it not fitting that as God gives us our Allowance, we should give him our Allegiance? If a General gives his Soldier Pay, he is to march at his Command, so that to live in the breach of his Commands, is against Equity.
Thirdly, It is against Nature. Every Creature in its kind, obeys Gods Laws: 1. Animate Creatures obey him, God spake to the Fish, and it set Jonah ashoar, Jonah 2.10. 2. Inanimate Creatures, the Wind and the Sea obey him;