A65285:2885
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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(3.) Self-examining is needful, because God will examine us. That was a sad Question, Matth. 22.12. Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a Wedding Garment? Men are loth to ask themselves the Question, O my Soul, art thou a fit Guest for the Lord's Table? Are there not some Sins thou hast to bewail? Are there not some Evidences for Heaven that thou hast to get? Now when Persons will not ask themselves the Question, then God will bring such a Question as this to them, How came ye in hither to my Table not prepared? How came ye in hither with an unbelieving or profane Heart? It will be such a Question as will cause an Heart-trembling. God will examine a Man as the chief Captain did Paul with Scourging, Acts 22.24. 'Tis true, the best Saint, if God should weigh him in the Balance, would be sound defective. But when a Christian hath made an impartial Search, and hath laboured to deal uprightly between God and his own Soul, Christ's Merits will cast in some Grains of Allowance into the Scales.
(3.) Self-examining is needful, because God will examine us. That was a sad Question, Matth. 22.12. Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a Wedding Garment? Men are loth to ask themselves the Question, O my Soul, art thou a fit Guest for the Lord's Table? Are there not some Sins thou hast to bewail? Are there not some Evidences for Heaven that thou hast to get? Now when Persons will not ask themselves the Question, then God will bring such a Question as this to them, How came ye in hither to my Table not prepared? How came ye in hither with an unbelieving or profane Heart? It will be such a Question as will cause an Heart-trembling. God will examine a Man as the chief Captain did Paul with Scourging, Acts 22.24. 'Tis true, the best Saint, if God should weigh him in the Ballance, would be sound defective. But when a Christian hath made an impartial Search, and hath laboured to deal uprightly between God and his own Soul, Christ's Merits will cast in some Grains of Allowance into the Scales.