A65285:2234
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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VIII. If you would hear aright, practise what you hear; Practice is the Life of all. Rev. 22.14. Blessed are they that do his Commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of Life. Bare Hearing will be no Plea at the Day of Judgment. Lord, I have heard so many Sermons. But God will say, What Fruits of Obedience have ye brought forth? The Word we Preach is not only to inform you, but to reform you; not only to mend your Sight, but to mend your Pace in the way to Heaven. A good Hearer is like the Helitropium, &c. it opens and shuts with the Sun, to ⟨p. 346⟩God, against Sin. Now that you may sanctify a Sabbath by Hearing:
VIII. If you would hear aright, practise what you hear; Practice is the Life of all. Rev. 22.14. Blessed are they that do his Commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of Life. Bare Hearing will be no Plea at the Day of Judgment. Lord, I have heard so many Sermons. But God will say, What Fruits of Obedience have ye brought forth? The Word we Preach is not only to inform you, but to reform you; not only to mend your Sight, but to mend your Pace in the way to Heaven. A good Hearer is like the Helitropium, &c. it opens and shuts with the Sun, to ⟨p. 346⟩God, against Sin. Now that you may sanctifie a Sabbath by Hearing:
1. If you do not hear the Word aright, you lose all your Labour. How many a weary Step have you taken? Your Body hath been crowded, your Spirit faint; if you are not bettered by hearing, if you are as proud, as vain, as earthly as ever, all your hearing is lost. You would be loth to Trade in vain; and why not as well to hear Sermons in vain?