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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
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.) We must solemnly prepare our selves before we come: We must not rush upon the Ordinance rudely and irreverently, but come in due order. There was a great deal of Preparation to the Passover; 2 Chron. 30.18, 19. And the Sacrament comes in the room of it.
Quest. Wherein doth this Solemn Preparing for the Ordinance consist?
Resp. 1. In Examining our selves.
2. In Dressing our Souls before we come, which is by washing in the Water of Repentance.
3. By exciting the Habit of Grace into Exercise.