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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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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.
Use 2. See the Vanity of the Creature; there are Changes in every thing but in God, Ps. 62.9. Men of high degree are vanity, and men of low degree are a lye. O quantum est in rebus inane: We look for more from the Creature, then God hath put into it. The World rings Changes; the Creature hath two Evils in it, it promiseth more then we find, and it fails us when we most need it: There is a Failure in Omni. A Man desires to have his Corn ground, the Water fails and then his Mill cannot go. The Mariner is for a Voyage, the Wind either doth not blow, or it is contrary, and he cannot sail. One depends upon another for the payment of a Promise, and he fails, and is like a Foot out of joint. Who would look for a fixed Stability in the vain Creature! As if one should build Houses on the Sand, where the Sea comes in and overflows. The Creature is true to nothing but Deceit, and is constant only in its Disappointments. 'Tis no more wonder to see Changes fall out here below, then to see the Moon dressing itself in a new shape and figure; look to meet with Changes in every thing but in God.