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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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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. Let us make Man. It is the manner of Artificers to be more then ordinary accurate, when they are about their Master-pieces. Man was to be a Master-piece of this visible World, therefore God did consult about the making of so rare a Piece. A Solemn Counsel of the Sacred Persons in the Trinity was called, Let us make Man; and let us make him in our own Image. On the King's Coin his Image or Effigies is stamped, so God stamped his Image on Man, and made him partake of many Divine qualities.
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 deck'd the Earth with Flowers, the Trees with Fruit, but what is Beauty when it is mask'd 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 Microcosme, or little World. Man was made with deliberation and counsel,