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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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2. Such as are set wilfully to murder their Souls, are they who are resolved upon their Lusts, let what will come of it; the Soul may cry out, I am killing, I am murdering. Eph. 4.19. They have given themselves over to work all Uncleanness with Greediness. Let Ministers speak to them about their Sins, let Conscience speak, let Affliction speak, yet they will have their Lusts, tho they go to Hell for them. Are not these resolved to murder their Souls? As Agrippina, Mother to Nero, said, Occidat modò imperet, Let my Son kill me, so he may Reign. So many say in their Hearts, Let our Sins damn us, so they may but please us. Herod will have his incestuous Lust, tho it cost him his Soul. Men will for a drop of Pleasure drink a Sea of Wrath. Are not these about to massacre and damn their own Souls?
2. Such as are set wilfully to murder their Souls, are they who are resolved upon their Lusts, let what will come of it; the Soul may cry out, I am killing, I am murdering. Eph. 4.19. They have given themselves over to work all Vncleanness with Greediness. Let Ministers speak to them about their Sins, let Conscience speak, let Affliction speak, yet they will have their Lusts, tho they go to Hell for them. Are not these resolved to murder their Souls? As Agrippina, Mother to Nero, said, Occidat modò imperet, Let my Son kill me, so he may Reign. So many say in their Hearts, Let our Sins damn us, so they may but please us. Herod will have his incestuous Lust, tho it cost him his Soul. Men will for a drop of Pleasure drink a Sea of Wrath. Are not these about to massacre and damn their own Souls?
3. They murder their Souls, who avoid all means of saving their Souls. They will go to Plays, to drunken Meetings, but will not set their Foot within God's House, or come near the Sound of the Gospel Trumpet. As if one that is Diseased should shun the Bath, for fear of being healed. These do wilfully damn their Souls, and are as great Murderers of themselves, as he, who having means of Cure offered him, chooseth Death rather than Physic.