A65285:2198
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.
(1.) They come from the Eye. A wandering Eye causeth wandering Thoughts. A Thief may be let into the House at a Window: So vain Thoughts are let in at the Eye. So that as we are bid to keep our Feet when we enter into the House of God, Eccles. 5.1. so we had need make a Covenant with our Eyes when we are in the House of God, Job 31.1. that we be not distracted by beholding other Objects.
(1.) They come from the Eye. A wandring Eye causeth wandring Thoughts. A Thief may be let into the House at a Window: So vain Thoughts are let in at the Eye. So that as we are bid to keep our Feet when we enter into the House of God, Eccles. 5.1. so we had need make a Covenant with our Eyes when we are in the House of God, Iob 31.1. that we be not distracted by beholding other Objects.
2. Wandering Thoughts in hearing arise out of the Heart. These Sparks come out of our own Furnace. Vain Thoughts are the Mud which the Heart (as a troubled Sea) casts up. Mark 7.21. For from within, out of the Heart of men, proceed evil Thoughts. It is the Foulness of the Stomach sends up Fumes into the Head; and the Corruption of the Heart sends up Evil Thoughts into the Mind.
2. Wandring Thoughts in hearing arise out of the Heart. These Sparks come out of our own Furnace. Vain Thoughts are the Mud which the Heart (as a troubled Sea) casts up. Mark 7.21. For from within, out of the Heart of men, proceed evil Thoughts. It is the Foulness of the Stomach sends up Fumes into the Head; and the Corruption of the Heart sends up Evil Thoughts into the Mind.