A65285:763
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.
2. The second Lesson Christ teacheth, is the Vanity of the Creature. A Natural Man sets up his Happiness here, worships the golden Image; but he that Christ hath anointed with his Eye-salve hath a Spirit of Discerning, he looks upon the Creature in its night dress, sees it to be empty and unsatisfying, not commensurate to an Heaven-born Soul. Solomon had put all the Creatures into a Limbeck, and when he came to extract the Spirits and Quintessence, all was Vanity, Eccl. 2.11. The Apostle calls it [Greek or Hebrew], a Show or Apparition ▪ 1 Cor. 7.31. having no intrinsical Goodness.
2. The second Lesson Christ teacheth, is the Vanity of the Creature. A Natural Man sets up his Happiness here, worships the golden Image; but he that Christ hath anointed with his Eye-salve hath a Spirit of Discerning, he looks upon the Creature in its night dress, sees it to be empty and unsatisfying, not commensurate to an Heaven-born Soul. Solomon had put all the Creatures into a Limbeck, and when he came to extract the Spirits and Quintissence, all was Vanity, Eccl. 2.11. The Apostle calls it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Show or Apparition ▪ 1 Cor. 7.31. having no intrinsical Goodness.
3. The third Lesson is the Excellency of Things unseen. Christ gives the Soul a sight of Glory, a prospect of Eternity, 2 Cor. 4.18. We look not at things which are seen, but [Greek or Hebrew], things which are not seen. Moses saw him who is invisible,