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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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1. Original sin hath depraved the [Greek or Hebrew], the intellectual part; as in the Creation Darkness was upon the face of the deep, Gen. 1.2. so the Understanding; darkness is upon the face of this Deep. As there is Salt in every drop of the Sea, bitterness in every branch of Wormwood, so there is Sin in every Faculty; the Mind is obnubilated, we know little of God. Ever since Adam did eat of the Tree of Knowledge, and his Eyes were opened, we lost our Eyesight. Besides Ignorance in the Mind, there is Error and Mistake, we do not judge rightly of things, we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, Isa. 5.20. Besides this, there is much pride, superciliousness, and prejudice, many fleshly reasonings against the Truth, and swarms of vain Thoughts, Jer. 4.14. How long shall vain thoughts lodge in thee.
1. Original sin hath depraved the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the intellectual part; as in the Creation Darkness was upon the face of the deep, Gen. 1.2. so the Understanding; darkness is upon the face of this Deep. As there is Salt in every drop of the Sea, bitterness in every branch of Wormwood, so there is Sin in every Faculty; the Mind is obnubilated, we know little of God. Ever since Adam did eat of the Tree of Knowledge, and his Eyes were opened, we lost our Eyesight. Besides Ignorance in the Mind, there is Errour and Mistake, we do not judge rightly of things, we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, Isa. 5.20. Besides this, there is much pride, superciliousness, and prejudice, many fleshly reasonings against the Truth, and swarms of vain Thoughts, Ier. 4.14. How long shall vain thoughts lodge in thee.