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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
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3. Armour of Proof; it doth furnish us with Weapons to fight against the Adversaries of the Truth.
4. It is the Holy Seed of which Grace is formed: 'Tis semen fidei, the Seed of Faith, Psal. 9.10. 'Tis Radix Amoris, the Root of Love, Eph. 3.17. Being rooted and grounded in love. The Knowledge of Principles conduceth to the making of a complete Christian.
4. It is the Holy Seed of which Grace is form'd: 'Tis semen fidei, the Seed of Faith, Psal. 9.10. 'Tis Radix Amoris, the Root of Love, Eph. 3.17. Being rooted and grounded in love. The Knowledge of Principles conduceth to the making of a compleat Christian.
2. That this Grounding is the best way to Settling: Grounded and settled, a Tree that it may be well settled, must be well rooted; so if you would be well settled in Religion, you must be rooted in the Principles of it. He in Plutarch set up a dead Man, and he would not stand, O, saith he, [Greek or Hebrew], there must be something within. So that we may stand in shaking Times, there must be a Principle of Knowledge within; first grounded and then settled. That the Ship may be kept from overturning, it must have its Anchor fastened; Knowledge of Principles is to the Soul as the Anchor to the Ship, that holds it steady in the midst of all the rolling Waves of Error, or the violent Winds of Persecution. First grounded and then settled.