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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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4. It is his cordial Desire to walk in all God's Commands. Psal. 119.5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy Statues. Tho his Strength fails, yet his Pulse beats.
5. He doth really endeavour to obey God's Law perfectly, and wherein he comes short, he runs to Christ's Blood to make Supply for his Defects. This cordial Desire and real Endeavour God esteems as perfect Obedience. 2 Cor. 8.12. If there be a willing mind, it is accepted. Let me hear thy Voice, for sweet is thy Voice, Cant. 2.14. Tho the Prayers of the Righteous are mixed with Sin, yet God sees they would pray better; God picks out the Weeds from the Flowers; he sees the Faith, and winks at the Failing. The Saints Obedience, tho it falls short of Legal Perfection, yet having Sincerity in it, and Christ's Merits mixed with it, finds gracious Acceptance. When the Lord sees endeavours after Perfect Obedience, this he takes well at our Hands: As a Father that receives a Letter from his Child, tho' there be Blots in the Letters and False Spellings, yet the Father takes all in good Part. O what Blottings are there in our Holy Things! But God is pleased to take all in good part. Saith God, It is my Child, and he would do better if he could; I will accept it.
5. He doth really endeavour to obey God's Law perfectly, and wherein he comes short, he runs to Christ's Blood to make Supply for his Defects. This cordial Desire and real Endeavour God esteems as perfect Obedience. 2 Cor. 8.12. If there be a willing mind, it is accepted. Let me hear thy Voice, for sweet is thy Voice, Cant. 2.14. Tho the Prayers of the Righteous are mixed with Sin, yet God sees they would pray better; God picks out the Weeds from the Flowers; he sees the Faith, and winks at the Failing. The Saints Obedience, tho it falls short of Legal Perfection, yet having Sincerity in it, and Christ's Merits mix'd with it, finds gracious Acceptance. When the Lord sees endeavours after Perfect Obedience, this he takes well at our Hands: As a Father that receives a Letter from his Child, tho' there be Blots in the Letters and False Spellings, yet the Father takes all in good Part. O what Blottings are there in our Holy Things! But God is pleas'd to take all in good part. Saith God, It is my Child, and he would do better if he could; I will accept it.