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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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Use 3. Comfort to the Godly, 1. In case of Losses, if an Estate be almost boiled away to nothing; if lose dear Friends by Death, here's a double Eclipse; but this is the Comfort, God is Unchangeable; I may loose these things, but I cannot lose my God, he never dies. When the Fig-tree and Olive failed, yet God did not fail, Hab. 3.17. I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Flowers in the Garden dye, but a Man's Portion remains: So outward things dye and change, but, Psal. 73.26. Thou art the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Use 3. Comfort to the Godly, 1. In case of Losses, if an Estate be almost boyld away to nothing; if lose dear Friends by Death, here's a double Eclipse; but this is the Comfort, God is Unchangeable; I may loose these things, but I cannot lose my God, he never dies. When the Fig-tree and Olive failed, yet God did not fail, Hab. 3.17. I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Flowers in the Garden dye, but a Man's Portion remains: So outward things dye and change, but, Psal. 73.26. Thou art the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
2. In case of Sadness of Spirit, when God seems to cast off the Soul in Dejection, Cant. 5.6. My beloved had withdrawn himself; yet God is Unchangeable. He is Immutable in his Love, he may change his Countenance but not his Heart▪ Jer. 31.4. I have loved thee with an everlasting love; Hebrew Gnolam, A Love of Eternity. If once God's Electing Love riseth upon the Soul, it never sets,