A65285:2621
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.
(1.) In the Covenant of Works God required Perfection of Degrees. In the Covenant of Grace he accepts Perfection of Parts: There he required perfect Working, here he accepts sincere Believing. In the Covenant of Works God required us to live without Sin; in the Covenant of Grace God accepts of our Combat with Sin.
(2.) Tho a Christian cannot in his own Person perform all God's Commandments, yet Christ as his Surety, and in his stead hath fulfilled the Law for him, and God accepts of Christ's Obedience, which is perfect, to satisfy for that Obedience which is imperfect: Christ being made a Curse for Believers, all the Curses of the Law have their Sting pulled out.
(2.) Tho a Christian cannot in his own Person perform all God's Commandments, yet Christ as his Surety, and in his stead hath fulfilled the Law for him, and God accepts of Christ's Obedience, which is perfect, to satisfie for that Obedience which is imperfect: Christ being made a Curse for Believers, all the Curses of the Law have their Sting pulled out.
(3.) Tho a Christian cannot keep the Commands of God to Satisfaction, yet he may to Approbation.