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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.
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.
3. Others are changeable in their Friendship, quickly love and quickly hate; sometimes will put you in their Bosom, then excommunicate you out of their Favour: thus they change as the Chameleon into several Colours. But God is Immutable.
3. Others are changeable in their Friendship, quickly love and quickly hate; sometimes will put you in their Bosom, then excommunicate you out of their Favour: thus they change as the Camelion into several Colours. But God is Immutable.