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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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3. Unbelief is a Leading Sin. It is the Breeder of Sin. Qualitas malae vitae initium sumit ab infidelitate. Unbelief is a Root-sin, and the Devil labours to water this Root, that the Branches may be fruitful. (1.) Unbelief breeds Hardness of Heart: Therefore they are put together, Mark 16.14. Christ upbraided them with their Unbelief and Hardness of Heart. Unbelief breeds the Stone of the Heart. He who believes not in Christ, is not affected with his Sufferings, he melts not in Tears of Love. Unbelief freeth the Heart; first it defiles, and then it hardens. (2.) Unbelief breeds Profaneness. An Unbeliever will stick at no sin; neither at False Weights nor False Oaths. He will swallow down Treason. Judas was first an Unbeliever, and then a Traitor, John 6.64. He who hath no Faith in his Heart, will have no Fear of God before his Eyes.
3. Unbelief is a Leading Sin. It is the Breeder of Sin. Qualitas malae vitae initium sumit ab infidelitate. Unbelief is a Root-sin, and the Devil labours to water this Root, that the Branches may be fruitful. (1.) Unbelief breeds Hardness of Heart: Therefore they are put together, Mark 16.14. Christ upbraided them with their Vnbelief and Hardness of Heart. Unbelief breeds the Stone of the Heart. He who believes not in Christ, is not affected with his Sufferings, he melts not in Tears of Love. Unbelief freeth the Heart; first it defiles, and then it hardens. (2.) Unbelief breeds Profaneness. An Unbeliever will stick at no sin; neither at Fals• Weights nor False Oaths. He will swallow down Treason. Iudas was first an Unbeliever, and then a Traitor, Iohn 6.64. He who hath no Faith in his Heart, will have no Fear of God before his Eyes.