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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.
1 John 3.4. Sin is a Transgression of the Law. Of Sin in general.
1. Sin is [Greek or Hebrew], a Violation or Transgression. The Latin word transgredior, to transgress, signifies to go beyond ones Bounds. The Moral Law is to keep us within the bounds of our Duty; Sin is a going beyond our bounds.
1. Sin is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Violation or Transgression. The Latin word transgredior, to transgress, signifies to go beyond ones Bounds. The Moral Law is to keep us within the bounds of our Duty; Sin is a going beyond our bounds.
2. The Law of God; it is not the Law of an Inferior Prince is broken, but of Jehovah, who gives Laws as well to Angels as Men; it is a Law that is just, and holy, and good, Rom. 7.12. It is just, there is nothing in it unequal; holy, nothing in it impure; good, nothing in it prejudicial. So that there is no reason to break this Law, no more than for a Beast that is in a fat Pasture to break over the Hedge to leap into a barren Heath or Quagmire.
2. The Law of God; it is not the Law of an Inferiour Prince is broken, but of Iehovah, who gives Laws as well to Angels as Men; it is a Law that is just, and holy, and good, Rom. 7.12. It is just, there is nothing in it unequal; holy, nothing in it impure; good, nothing in it prejudicial. So that there is no reason to break this Law, no more than for a Beast that is in a fat Pasture to break over the Hedge to leap into a barren Heath or Quagmire.