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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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Answ. 1. We please God when we comport with his Will. 'Twas Christ's meat and drink to do his Father's will, John 4.34. and so he pleased him, Matth. 3 17. A voice came from heaven, saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. It is the will of God that we should be holy, 1 Thess. 4.3•. Now when we are bespangled with Holiness, our Lives are walking Bibles: this is according to God's will, and it pleaseth him.
Answ. 1. We please God when we comport with his Will. 'Twas Christ's meat and drink to do his Father's will, Iohn 4.34. and so he pleased him, Matth. 3 17. A voice came from heaven, saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. It is the will of God that we should be holy, 1 Thess. 4.3•. Now when we are bespangled with Holiness, our Lives are walking Bibles: this is according to God's will, and it pleaseth him.
2. We please God when we do the Work that he sets us about, John 17.4. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, viz. my mediatory work. Many finish their lives, but do not finish their work. Our work God hath cut out for us, is to observe the first and second Table. In the first is set down our duty towards God; in the second our duty towards Man. Such as make Morality the chief and sole part of Religion, set the second Table above the first; nay, they take away the first Table: for if Prudence, Justice, Temperance, be enough to save, then what needs the first Table? and so our worship towards God shall be quite left out. But those two Tables which God hath joined together, let no Man put asunder.