A65285:2725
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.) Humiliation. Lev. 26.41. If their Uncircumcised Hearts be humbled. There is (as the School-men) a two-fold Humiliation, or breaking of the Heart. 1. Attrition: As when a Rock is broken in pieces, this is done by the Law, which is an Hammer to break the Heart. 2. Contrition; as wh•n Ice is melted into Water. This is done by the Gospel, which is as a Fire to melt the Heart, Jer. 23.9. It is the Sense of abused kindness causeth Contrition.
(1.) Humiliation. Lev. 26.41. If their Vncircumcised Hearts be humbled. There is (as the School-men) a two-fold Humiliation, or breaking of the Heart. 1. Attrition: As when a Rock is broken in pieces, this is done by the Law, which is an Hammer to break the Heart. 2. Contrition; as wh•n Ice is melted into Water. This is done by the Gospel, which is as a Fire to melt the Heart, Ier. 23.9. It is the Sence of abused kindness causeth Contrition.
(2.) Transformation, or Change. Rom. 12.2. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your Mind. Repentance works a Change in the whole Man: As Wine put into a Glass where Water is, the Wine runs into every part of the Water, and changeth its Colour and Taste. So true Repentance doth not rest in one part, but diffuse and spread it self into every part.