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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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8. Beg of God that he will accompany his Word with his Presence and Blessing. The Spirit must make all effectual. Ministers may prescribe Physic, but it is God's Spirit must make it work. Cathedram habet in Coelo qui corda docet in terra. Aug. He hath his Pulpit in Heaven that converts Souls. Acts 10.44. While Peter was speaking, the Holy Ghost fell upon all them that heard. It is said the Alchemist can draw Oil out of Iron. God's Spirit can produce Grace in the most obdurate Heart.
8. Beg of God that he will accompany his Word with his Presence and Blessing. The Spirit must make all effectual. Ministers may prescribe Physick, but it is God's Spirit must make it work. Cathedram habet in Coelo qui corda docet in terra. Aug. He hath his Pulpit in Heaven that converts Souls. Acts 10.44. While Peter was speaking, the Holy Ghost fell upon all them that heard. It is said the Alchimist can draw Oyl out of Iron. God's Spirit can produce Grace in the most obdurate Heart.
9. & ult. If you would have the Word work effectually to your Salvation, make it Familiar to you, discourse of the Word you have heard when you come home. Psal. 119.172. My Tongue shall speak of thy Word. That may be one reason why some People get no more good by what they hear, because they never speak one to another of what they have heard: As if Sermons were such Secrets, that they must not be spoken of again; or as if it were a Shame to speak of matters of Salvation. Mal. 3.16. They that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and a Book of Remembrance was written.
9. & ult. If you would have the VVord work effectually to your Salvation, make it Familiar to you, discourse of the VVord you have heard when you come home.