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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. God's Mercy is free: To set up Merit is to destroy Mercy; nothing can deserve Mercy, because we are polluted in our Blood, nor force it. We may force God to punish us, not to love us, Hos. 14.4. I will love them freely. Every Link in the Chain of Salvation, is wrought and interwoven with Free-grace. Election is free, Eph. 1.4. He hath chosen us in him [Greek or Hebrew], according to the good pleasure of his will. Justification is free, Rom. 3.24. Being justified freely by his grace. Salvation is free, Tit. 3.5. According to his mercy he saved us. Say not then I am Unworthy, for Mercy is free: If God should show Mercy only to such as are Worthy, he should show Mercy to none at all.
1. God's Mercy is free: To set up Merit is to destroy Mercy; nothing can deserve Mercy, because we are polluted in our Bloud, nor force it. We may force God to punish us, not to love us, Hos. 14.4. I will love them freely. Every Link in the Chain of Salvation, is wrought and interwoven with Free-grace. Election is free, Eph. 1.4. He hath chosen us in him 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, according to the good pleasure of his will. Justification is free, Rom. 3.24. Being justified freely by his grace. Salvation is free, Tit. 3.5. According to his mercy he saved us. Say not then I am Unworthy, for Mercy is free: If God should shew Mercy only to such as are Worthy, he should shew Mercy to none at all.