A65285:2170
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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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.
5. That Christ should die so willingly, John 10.17. I lay down my Life. The Jews could not have taken it away, if he had not laid it down; he could have called to his Father for a Legion of Angels to be his Life-guard; but what needed that, when his Godhead could have defended him from all Assaults? But he laid down his Life: The Jews did not so much thirst for Christ's Death, as he thirsted for our Redemption; Luke 12.50. I have a Baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished. Christ called his Sufferings a Baptism: He was to be baptized and sprinkled with his own Blood, and Christ thought the time long before he suffered. [Greek or Hebrew], How am I straitened till it be accomplished. Therefore to show Christ's willingness to die, his Sufferings is called an Offering,