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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.
(2.) God's Wrath; which is nothing else but the Execution of God's Curse.
First, What this Wrath is? In this Wrath there is, 1. Something that is Privative; that is, the being deprived of the Smiles of God's Face. It is Hell enough to be excluded God's Presence; In whose Presence is fullness of Joy, Psal. 16.11. God's smiling Face hath that Splendour and Oriency of Beauty shining in it, as ravisheth the Angels with delight. This is the Diamond in the Ring of Glory. And if it were such a Misery for Absalom that he might not see the King's Face, 2 Kings 14.22. what will it be for the wicked to be shut out from beholding God's pleasant Face! Privatio divinae Visionis omnium suppliciorum summum.
First, What this Wrath is? In this Wrath there is, 1. Something that is Privative; that is, the being deprived of the Smiles of God's Face. It is Hell enough to be excluded God's Presence; In whose Presence is fulness of Ioy, Psal. 16.11. God's smiling Face hath that Splendor and Oriency of Beauty shining in it, as ravisheth the Angels with delight. This is the Diamond in the Ring of Glory. And if it were such a Misery for Absalom that he might not see the King's Face, 2 Kings 14.22. what will it be for the wicked to be shut out from beholding God's pleasant Face! Privatio divinae Visionis omnium suppliciorum summum.
Secondly, God's Wrath hath something in it Positive. That is, his Frown and enraged Fury, which is [Greek or Hebrew], Wrath come upon the Sinner to the uttermost,