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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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I should come now to speak concerning the Decrees of God, but I have already spoken something to this under the Attribute of God's Immutability, God is unchangeable in his Essence, and he is unchangeable in his Decrees, his Counsel shall stand, he hath decreed the Issue of all things, and carries them on to their Period by his Providence; and therefore I shall proceed to the Execution of his Decrees.
Quest. VIII. The next Question is, What is the Work of Creation?
Resp. It is God's making all things of nothing by the word of his power, &c. Gen. 1.1. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.
The Creation is glorious to behold; it is a pleasant and fruitful study. Some think that Isaac, when he went abroad into the Fields to meditate, it was in the Book of the Creatures. The Creation is the Heathen Man's Bible, the Ploughman's Primmer, the Travellers Perspective Glass, through which he receives the Species and Representation of those infinite Excellencies which are in God. The Creation is a large Volume, in which God's Works are bound up; and this Volume hath three great Leaves in it, Heaven, Earth, Sea.