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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.
Resp. In two things, 1st, In our Suitableness to God's Nature. 2dly, Our Subjection to his Will:
1. Our Holiness stands in our Suitableness to the Nature of God: Hence the Saints are said to partake of the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1.4. which is not a partaking of his Essence, but his Image. Herein is the Saints Holiness, when they are the lively Pictures of God: they bear the Image of God's Meekness, Mercifulness, Heavenliness; they are of the same Judgment with God, of the same Disposition, they love what he loves, and hate what he hates.
2. Our Holiness consists in our Subjection to the Will of God: As God's Nature is the Pattern of Holiness, so his Will is the Rule of Holiness. This is our Holiness, 1. When we do his Will, Acts 13.22. 2. When we bear his Will, Mich. 7.9. What he inflicts wisely, we suffer willingly. This is our Holiness, when we are suitable to God's Nature, and submissive to his Will; this should be our great Care to be like God in Holiness. Our Holiness should be so qualified as God's; God's is a real Holiness, such should ours be, Ephes. 4.24. Righteousness and true holiness; it should not be only the Paint of Holiness, but the Life of Holiness; it should not only be like the Egyptian Temples, beautiful without, but like Solomon's Temple, Gold within, Psal. 45.13. The King's Daughter is glorious within. That I may press you to resemble God in Holiness.