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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 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, Acts 17.24. God that made the World, and all things therein.
In the work of the Creation there are two things to be considered: The making of it The adorning of it.