A65285:721
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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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.
3. You may upon all Occasions plead the Covenant. If you are haunted with Temptation, plead the Covenant; Lord, thou hast promised to bruise Satan under my feet shortly; wilt thou suffer thy Child to be thus worried? take off the roaring Lion. If in want, plead the Covenant; Lord, thou hast said, I shall want no good thing, wilt thou save me from Hell, and not from Want? wilt thou give me a Kingdom, and deny me daily Bread?
4. If in Covenant with God, all things shall co-operate for your Good: Etiam mala cedunt in bonum. Psal. 25.10. Not only golden paths, but his bloody paths. Every wind of Providence shall blow them nearer Heaven. Affliction shall humble and purify, Hebr. 12.10. Out of the bitterest Drug, God distils your Salvation. Afflictions add to the Saints Glory. The more the Diamond is cut, the more it sparkles; the heavier the Saints Cross, the heavier shall be their Crown.
4. If in Covenant with God, all things shall co-operate for your Good: Etiam mala cedunt in bonum. Psal. 25.10. Not only golden paths, but his bloody paths. Every wind of Providence shall blow them nearer Heaven. Affliction shall humble and purifie, Hebr. 12.10. Out of the bitterest Drug, God distils your Salvation. Afflictions add to the Saints Glory. The more the Diamond is cut, the more it sparkles; the heavier the Saints Cross, the heavier shall be their Crown.