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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quest. How shall we do to get our Souls saved?
Resp. By having them sanctified. Only the pure in Heart shall see God. Get your Souls in-laid and enamelled with Holiness. 1 Pet. 1.16. It is not enough that we cease to do Evil, (which is all the Evidence some have to show,) this is to lose Heaven by short shooting; but we must be inwardly sanctified: Not only the unclean Spirit must go out, but we must be filled with the Holy Ghost, Eph. 5.18. This Holiness must needs be, if you consider God is to dwell with you here, and you are to dwell with him hereafter.
Resp. By having them sanctified. Only the pure in Heart shall see God. Get your Souls in-laid and enamel'd with Holiness. 1 Pet. 1.16. It is not enough that we cease to do Evil, (which is all the Evidence some have to show,) this is to lose Heaven by short shooting; but we must be inwardly sanctify'd: Not only the unclean Spirit must go out, but we must be filled with the Holy Ghost, Eph. 5.18. This Holiness must needs be, if you consider God is to dwell with you here, and you are to dwell with him hereafter.
First, God is to dwell with you here. God takes up the Soul for his own Lodgings. Eph. 3.17. That Christ may dwell in your Heart. Therefore the Soul must be Consecrated. A King's Palace must be kept clean, especially his Presence-Chamber. ⟨p. 369⟩