A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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GOD's Unchangeableness.GOD's Vnchangeableness.

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THE next Attribute is God's Unchangeableness, Mal. 3.6. I am Jehovah, I change not. 1. God is unchangeable in his Nature. 2. In his Decree.

THE next Attribute is God's Unchangeableness, Mal. 3.6. I am Iehovah, I change not. 1. God is unchangeable in his Nature. 2. In his Decree.

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1st, Unchangeable in his Nature: 1. There is no Eclipse of his Brightness. 2. No Period put to his Being.

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1. No Eclipse of his Brightness: His Essence shines with a fixed Lustre, Jam. 1.17. With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Psal. 102.27. Thou art the same. All created Things are full of Vicissitude, 1. Princes and Emperors are subject to Mutation. Sehostris, an Egyptian Prince, having subdued divers Kings in War, made them draw like Horses in his Chariot, as if he intended to turn them to Grass, as God did King Nebuchadnezzar. The Crown hath many Successors. 2. Kingdoms have their Eclipses and Convulsions: What is become of the Glory of Athens? the Pomp of Troy? Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit. Kingdoms tho' they have a Head of Gold, yet Feet of Clay. 3. The Heavens change, Psal. 102.25, 26. As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. The Matter of the Elements as it is more pure, so more firm and solid; the Heavens are the most ancient Records where God hath written his Glory with a Sun-beam; yet these shall change, though I do not think they shall be destroyed as to their substance, yet they shall be changed as to their qualities: They shall met with fervent heat,

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