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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MAN's Misery by the FALL.

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II. Positive: In four things, 1. Under the Power of Satan. 2. Heirs of God's Wrath. 3. Subject to all Miseries in this Life. 4. Obnoxious to Hell and Damnation.

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1. The first Misery is, By Nature we are under the Power of Satan,] who is called, The Prince of the Power of the Air, Eph. 2.2. Before the Fall Man was a free Denizen, now a Slave; before a King on the Throne, now in Fetters. And who is Man enslaved too? To one that is an Hater of him. This was an Aggravation of Israel's Servitude, Psal. 106.41. They that hated them ruled over them. By Sin we are enslaved to Satan, who is an Hater of Mankind, and writes all his Laws in Blood. Sinners before Conversion are under Satan's Command, as the Ass at the command of the Driver, he doth all the Devil's Drudgery. No sooner Satan tempts but he obeys; as the Ship is at the command of the Pilot, he steers it which way he will; so is the Sinner at the command of Satan, he may steer him which way he will; and he never steers the Ship but into Hell's Mouth. The Devil rules all the Powers and Faculties of a Sinner:

1. The first Misery is, By Nature we are under the Power of Satan,] who is called, The Prince of the Power of the Air, Eph. 2.2. Before the Fall Man was a free Denison, now a Slave; before a King on the Throne, now in Fetters. And who is Man inslaved too? To one that is an Hater of him. This was an Aggravation of Israel's Servitude, Psal. 106.41. They that hated them ruled over them. By Sin we are enslaved to Satan, who is an Hater of Mankind, and writes all his Laws in Bloud. Sinners before Conversion are under Satan's Command, as the Ass at the command of the Driver, he doth all the Devil's Drudgery. No sooner Satan tempts but he obeys; as the Ship is at the command of the Pilot, he steers it which way he will; so is the Sinner at the command of Satan, he may steer him which way he will; and he never steers the Ship but into Hell's Mouth. The Devil rules all the Powers and Faculties of a Sinner:

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