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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. 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 My beloved had withdrawn himself; yet God is Unchangeable.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, Isa. 54.10. The mountains shall be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor the covenant of my peace be removed. God's Love stands faster then the Mountains; God's Love to Christ is Unchangeable, and he will no more cease loving Believers then he will cease loving Christ.
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 My beloved had withdrawn himself; yet God is Unchangeable.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▪ Ier. 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, Isa. 54.10. The mountains shall be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor the covenant of my peace be removed. God's Love stands faster then the Mountains; God's Love to Christ is Unchangeable, and he will no more cease loving Believers then he will cease loving Christ.
Use 4. of Exhortation: Get an Interest in this Unchangeable God, then thou art as a Rock in the Sea, immovable in midst of all Changes.