A65285:725
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Use 5. of Direct. To show you how you should walk who have tasted of Covenant-Mercy, Live as a People in Covenant with God. As you differ from others in respect of Dignity, so you must in point of Carriage.
Use 5. of Direct. To shew you how you should walk who have tasted of Covenant-Mercy, Live as a People in Covenant with God. As you differ from others in respect of Dignity, so you must in point of Carriage.
1. You must love this God. God's Love to you calls for Love. 1. It is Amor ⟨p. 93⟩Gratiatus, a free Love. Why should God pass by others and take you into a League of Friendship with himself? In the Law God passed by the Lion and Eagle, and chose the Dove; so he passes by the Noble and Mighty. 2. It is Amor plenns, a full Love. When God takes you into Covenant, you are his Hephsibah, Isa. 62.3. his delight is in you; he gives you the Key of all his Treasure, he heaps Pearls upon you, he settles Heaven and Earth upon you; he gives you a Bunch of Grapes by the way, and saith, Son, all I have is thine. And doth not all this call for Love? Who can tread upon these hot Coals, and his heart not burn in love to God?
2. Walk Holily. The Covenant hath made you a Royal Nation, therefore be an holy People. Shine as Lights in the World; live as Earthly Angels. God hath taken you into Covenant, that you and he may have Communion together: and what is it keeps up your Communion with God, but Holiness.