A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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Of the Holiness of GOD.

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1. How Illustrious every holy Person is; he is [Greek or Hebrew], he is a fair Glass in which some of the Beams of God's Holiness shines forth. We read Aaron put on Garments for Glory and Beauty, Exod. 28.2. When we wear the embroidered Garment of Holiness, it is for Glory and Beauty. A good Christian is ruddy, being sprinkled with Christ's Blood, and white, being adorned with Holiness. As the Diamond to a Ring, so is Holiness to the Soul. So beautiful a thing is Holiness, that as Chrysostom saith, 'They that oppose it, cannot but admire it.

1. How Illustrious every holy Person is; he is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he is a fair Glass in which some of the Beams of God's Holiness shines forth. We read Aaron put on Garments for Glory and Beauty, Exod. 28.2. When we wear the embroidered Garment of Holiness, it is for Glory and Beauty. A good Christian is ruddy, being sprinkled with Christ's Bloud, and white, being adorn'd with Holiness. As the Diamond to a Ring, so is Holiness to the Soul. So beautiful a thing is Holiness, that as Chrysostom saith, 'They that oppose it, cannot but admire it.

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2. It is the great Design God carries on in the World, to make a People like himself in Holiness: What are all the Showers of the Ordinances for, but to rain down Righteousness upon us, and make us Holy? What are the Promises for, but to encourage Holiness? What is the sending of the Spirit into the World for, but to anoint us with the Holy Unction, 1 Joh. 2.20. What are all Afflictions for, but to make us Partakers of God's Holiness, Heb. 12.10▪ What are Mercies for, but Lodestones to draw us to Holiness? What is the end of Christ's dying, but that his Blood might wash away our Unholiness,

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