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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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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.
3. Take heed of the Sin of Uncleanness. Heb. 13.4. Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge. Such as burn in Uncleanness, are in great Danger to burn one Day in Hell. Let one Fire put out another; let the Fire of God's Wrath put out the Fire of Lust.
3. Take heed of the Sin of Vncleanness. Heb. 13.4. Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge. Such as burn in Uncleanness, are in great Danger to burn one Day in Hell. Let one Fire put out another; let the Fire of God's Wrath put out the Fire of Lust.
3d. Br. To you who have a well-grounded hope, that you shall not feel this Wrath which you have deserved, let me exhort you, 1. To be very thankful to God, who hath given his Son to save you from this tremendous Wrath. Jesus hath delivered you from Wrath to come. The Lamb of God was scorched in the Fire of God's Wrath for you: Christ did feel the Wrath which he did not deserve, that you may escape the Wrath which you have deserved. Pliny observes, that there is nothing better to quench Fire than Blood. Christ's Blood hath quenched the Fire of God's Wrath for you. Upon me, upon me be the Curse, said Rebekah to Jacob, Gen. 27.13. So said Christ to God's Justice, Upon me be the Curse, that my Elect ⟨p. 398⟩may inherit the Blessing. 2. Be patient under all the Afflictions which you endure. Affliction is sharp, but this is not Wrath, this is not Hell. Who would not willingly drink in the Cup of Affliction, that knows he shall never drink in the Cup of Damnation? Who would not be willing to bear the Wrath of Men, that knows he shall never feel the Wrath of God?
3d. Br. To you who have a well-grounded hope, that you shall not feel this Wrath which you have deserved, let me exhort you, 1. To be very thankful to God, who hath given his Son to save you from this tremendous Wrath. Iesus hath deliver'd you from Wrath to come. The Lamb of God was scorch'd in the Fire of God's Wrath for you: Christ did feel the Wrath which he did not deserve, that you may escape the Wrath which you have deserved. Pliny observes, that there is nothing better to quench Fire than Blood. Christ's Blood hath quench'd the Fire of God's Wrath for you. Vpon me, upon me be the Curse, said Rebecka to Iacob,