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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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Consider 1. the Misery of such as live and die out of Covenant with God. 1. Such have none to go to in an hour of distress. When Conscience accuseth, when Sickness approacheth (which is but an Harbinger to bespeak a Lodging for Death) then what will you do? whither will you fly? will you look to Christ for help? He is a Mediator only for such as are in Covenant. O! how will you be filled with horror and despair, and be as Saul, 1 Sam. 15.28. The Philistines make war against me, and the Lord is departed. 2. Till you are in Covenant with God, there is no Mercy. The Mercy-Seat was placed upon the Ark, and the Mercy-Seat was no larger then the Ark; to show, that the Mercy of God reacheth no further then the Covenant.
Consider 1. the Misery of such as live and die out of Covenant with God. 1. Such have none to go to in an hour of distress. When Conscience accuseth, when Sickness approacheth (which is but an Harbinger to bespeak a Loding for Death) then what will you do? whither will you fly? will you look to Christ for help? He is a Mediator only for such as are in Covenant. O! how will you be filled with horrour and despair, and be as Saul, 1 Sam. 15.28. The Philistines make war against me, and the Lord is departed. 2. Till you are in Covenant with God, there is no Mercy. The Mercy-Seat was placed upon the Ark, and the Mercy-Seat was no larger then the Ark; to shew, that the Mercy of God reacheth no further then the Covenant.
2. The Excellency of the Covenant of Grace; it is a better Covenant then the first made with Adam. 1. Because it is more friendly and propitious. Those Services which would have been rejected in the first Covenant, are accepted in the second. Here God accepts of the Will for the Deed, 2 Cor. 8.10. here sincerity is crowned. In the Covenant of Grace, wherein we are weak, God will give strength, and wherein we come short, God will accept of a Surety. 2. It is a better Covenant, because it is surer.