A65285:2169
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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Secondly, As we could not deserve, so neither could we recompense Christ's Love. For,
1. After he had died for us, we could not so much as love him, till he made us love him.
1. After he had dy'd for us, we could not so much as love him, till he made us love him.
2. We could give Christ nothing in lieu of his Love. Rom. 11.35. Who hath first given to him? We were fallen to Poverty; if we have any Beauty, it is from Christ. Ezek. 16.14. Thou wert comely through my comeliness which I put upon thee. If we bring forth any good Fruit, it is not of our own Growth, it comes from Christ the True Vine, Hos. 14.8. From me is thy Fruit found. So that it was nothing but pure Love for Christ to lay out his Blood to redeem such as he could not expect to be really bettered by.