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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. If they are perfect, they need not ask Pardon: They can pay God's Justice what they owe; therefore what need they pray, Forgive us our Debts? O that the Devil should rock Men so fast asleep, as to make them dream of Perfection. And whereas they bring that, Phil. 3.15. Let us therefore as many as be Perfect be thus minded. Answ. Perfection there is meant of Sincerity. God is best able to interpret his own Word, he calls Sincerity Perfection. Job 1.8. A perfect and an upright Man. But who is exactly perfect? A Man full of Diseases may as well say he is healthful, as a Man full of Sin say he is perfect.
2. If they are perfect, they need not ask Pardon: They can pay God's Justice what they owe; therefore what need they pray, Forgive us our Debts? O that the Devil should rock Men so fast asleep, as to make them dream of Perfection. And whereas they bring that, Phil. 3.15. Let us therefore as many as be Perfect be thus minded. Answ. Perfection there is meant of Sincerity. God is best able to interpret his own Word, he calls Sincerity Perfection. Iob 1.8. A perfect and an upright Man. But who is exactly perfect? A Man full of Diseases may as well say he is healthful, as a Man full of Sin say he is perfect.
Use III. To Regenerate Persons. Tho you fail in your Obedience, and cannot keep the Moral Law exactly, yet be not discouraged.
Vse III. To Regenerate Persons. Tho you fail in your Obedience, and cannot keep the Moral Law exactly, yet be not discouraged.