A65285:2156
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.
(2.) Get up betimes on the Sabbath-morning. Christ rose early on this day before the Sun was up, John 20.1. Did Christ rise early to save us, and shall not we rise early to worship and glorify him? Psal. 63.1. Early will I seek thee. Can we be up betimes on other days? The Husbandman is early at his Plough, the Traveller riseth early to go his Journey, and shall not we, when we are on this day travelling to Heaven? Certainly did we love God as we should, we would rise on this day betimes, that we may meet with him whom our Soul loveth. Such as sit up late at work on the Night before, will be so buried in sleep, that they will hardly be up betimes on a Sabbath-morning.
(2.) Get up betimes on the Sabbath-morning. Christ rose early on this day before the Sun was up, Iohn 20.1. Did Christ rise early to save us, and shall not we rise early to worship and glorifie him? Psal. 63.1. Early will I seek thee. Can we be up betimes on other days? The Husbandman is early at his Plough, the Traveller riseth early to go his Journey, and shall not we, when we are on this day travelling to Heaven? Certainly did we love God as we should, we would rise on this day betimes, that we may meet with him whom our Soul loveth. Such as sit up late at work on the Night before, will be so buried in sleep, that they will hardly be up betimes on a Sabbath-morning.
(3.) Having dressed our Bodies, we must dress our Souls for the hearing of the Word. As the People of Israel were to wash themselves before the Law was delivered to them, Exod. 19.10. so we must wash and cleanse our Souls, and that is by Reading, Meditation and Prayer.