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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.
Use 1. See here the Excellency of the Divine Nature in its Immutability: this is the Glory of Godhead. Mutableness denotes Weakness; it is not so in God, he is the same Yesterday and to Day, and for ever, Heb. 13.8. Men are fickle and mutable, like Reuben, Unstable as water, Gen. 49.4. They go in changeable Colours:
Use 1. See here the Excellency of the Divine Nature in its Immutability: this is the Glory of Godhead. Mutableness denotes Weakness; it is not so in God, he is the same Yesterday and to Day, and for ever, Heb. 13.8. Men are fickle and mutable, like Ruében, Unstable as water, Gen. 49.4. They go in changeable Colours:
1. They are changeable in their Principles, [sometimes Protestant, sometimes Papist,] if their Faces altered as fast as their Opinions, we should not know them.
2. Changeable in their Resolutions; like the Wind that blows strongly in the East, presently turns about to the West; they resolve to be virtuous, but quickly repent of their Resolutions: Their Minds are like a sick Man's Pulse, alters every half Hour; these the Apostle compares to Waves of the Sea, and wandering Stars, Jud. 13. They are not Pillars in God's Temple, but Reeds.
2. Changeable in their Resolutions; like the Wind that blows strongly in the East, presently turns about to the West; they resolve to be virtuous, but quickly repent of their Resolutions: Their Minds are like a sick Man's Pulse, alters every half Hour; these the Apostle compares to Waves of the Sea, and wandring Stars, Iud. 13. They are not Pillars in God's Temple, but Reeds.