A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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Of the CREATION.

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2. God made the World with a Word. When Solomon was to build a Temple he needed many Workmen, and they all had Tools to work with, but God wrought without Tools, Psal. 33.6. By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made. The Disciples wondered that Christ could with a word calm the Sea, Matth. 8.26, 27. But it was more with a word to make the Sea.

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3. God made all things at first very good, Gen. 1.31. no defect or deformity. The Creation came out of God's hands a curious Piece; it was a fair Copy, without any Blot, written with God's own fingers, Psal. 8.3. So perfect was God's Work.

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II. The adorning of the World. First God made this great Lump and Mass, Rudis indigestaque moles, and then beautified it, and put it into a dress. He divided the Sea and the Earth, he decked the Earth with Flowers, the Trees with Fruit, but what is Beauty when it is masked over? Therefore that we might behold this glory, God made the Light. The Heavens were bespangled with Sun, Moon, and Stars, that so the Worlds Beauty might be beheld and admired. God in the Creation began with things less noble and excellent, Vegetables and Sensitives, and then the Rational Creatures, Angels and Men. Man was the most exquisite Piece in the Creation: he is a Microcosm, or little World. Man was made with deliberation and counsel, Gen. 1.26

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