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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. In rewarding the Virtuous; Psal. 58.11. Doubtless there is a reward for the righteous. The Saints shall not serve him for nought, he will reward praeces & lachrymas, [Greek or Hebrew], though they may be losers for him, they shall not be losers by him, Hebr. 6.10. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have showed to his Name. He gives a Reward, not that we have deserved it, but because he hath promised it.
1. In rewarding the Vertuous; Psal. 58.11. Doubtless there is a reward for the righteous. The Saints shall not serve him for nought, he will reward praeces & lachrymas, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, though they may be losers for him, they shall not be losers by him, Hebr. 6.10. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed to his Name. He gives a Reward, not that we have deserved it, but because he hath promised it.
2. He is just in punishing Offenders. And he is just, 1. Because he punisheth Sinners by a Law. Where there is no Law there is no transgression, Rom. 4.15. But God ⟨p. 51⟩hath given Men a Law, and they brake it, therefore he punisheth them justly. 2. God is just in punishing the Wicked, because he never punisheth them, but upon full Proof and Evidence. What greater Evidence then for a Man's own Conscience to be Witness against him? There is nothing God chargeth upon a Sinner, but Conscience doth set Seal to the Truth of it.