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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.
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.
The Author of the Creation is God, so it is in the Text, [Greek or Hebrew] God created. The World was created in time, and could not be from Eternity, as Aristotle thought. The World must have a Maker, it could not make it self. If one should go into a far Country, and see stately Edifices there, he would never imagine that these could build themselves, but that there had been some Artificer there to raise such goodly Structures; so this great Fabric of the World could not create it self, it must have some Builder and Maker, and that is God. In the beginning God created: To imagine that the Work of the Creation was not framed by the Lord Jehovah, is as if we should conceive a curious Landscape to be drawn without the Hand of a Limner, Acts 17.24. God that made the World, and all things therein.
The Author of the Creation is God, so it is in the Text, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 God created. The World was created in time, and could not be from Eternity, as Aristotle thought. The World must have a Maker, it could not make it self. If one should go into a far Country, and see stately Edifices there, he would never imagine that these could build themselves, but that there had been some Artificer there to raise such goodly Structures; so this great Fabrick of the World could not create it self, it must have some Builder and Maker, and that is God. In the beginning God created: To imagine that the Work of the Creation was not framed by the Lord Jehovah, is as if we should conceive a curious Lanskip to be drawn without the Hand of a Limner,