A65285:669
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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Use. See our Misery by the Fall, Heirs of Wrath: And is this Estate to be rested in? If a Man be fallen under the King's Displeasure, will he not labour to Re-ingratiate himself into his Favour. O let us fly from the Wrath of God! And whither should we fly, but to Jesus Christ? there's none else to shield off the Wrath of God from us, 1 Thess. 1.10. Jesus hath delivered us from wrath to come.
Use. See our Misery by the Fall, Heirs of Wrath: And is this Estate to be rested in? If a Man be fallen under the King's Displeasure, will he not labour to Re-ingratiate himself into his Favour. O let us flie from the Wrath of God! And whither should we flie, but to Jesus Christ? there's none else to shield off the Wrath of God from us, 1 Thess. 1.10. Iesus hath delivered us from wrath to come.
3. Subject to all outward Miseries: All the Troubles incident to Man's Life are the bitter Fruits of Original Sin; The sin of Adam hath subjected the Creature to Vanity, Rom. 8.20. Is it not a part of the Creature's Vanity, that all the Comforts here below will not fill the Heart, no more then the Mariner's breath can fill the Sails of a Ship: Job 2•.22. In the midst of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. There is still something wanting, and a Man would have more: the Heart is always Hydropical, it thirsts and is not satisfied. Solomon put all the Creatures into a Limbeck, and when he came to extract the Spirits and Quintessence, there was nothing but Froth, ⟨p. 88⟩all was Vanity, Eccles. 1.2