A65285:2188
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.
IV. Having thus dressed your Souls in a Morning, for the further Sanctification of the Sabbath, address your selves to the Hearing of the Word Preached.
(1.) And when you are set down in your Seat,
1. Lift up your Eyes to Heaven for a Blessing upon the Word to be dispensed. For, you must know the Word Preached doth not work as Physic, by its own inherent Virtue, but by a Virtue from Heaven, and the Co-operation of the Holy Ghost. Therefore put up a short Ejaculatory Prayer for a Blessing upon the Word, that it may be made effectual to you.
1. Lift up your Eyes to Heaven for a Blessing upon the Word to be dispensed. For, you must know the Word Preach'd doth not work as Physick, by its own inherent Vertue, but by a Vertue from Heaven, and the Co-operation of the Holy Ghost. Therefore put up a short Ejaculatory Prayer for a Blessing upon the Word, that it may be made effectual to you.