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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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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. Efficaciously. It is a prevailing Intercession. Christ never lost any Cause he pleaded, he was never Non-suited. Christ's Intercession must needs be effectual, if you consider,
(1.) The Excellency of his Person; if the Prayer of a Saint be so prevalent with God: Moses's Prayer did bind God's hands, Exod. 32.10. Let me alone: and Jacob as a Prince prevailed with God, Gen. 32.28. and Elijah did by Prayer open and shut Heaven, Jam. 5.17. Then what is Christ's Prayer? He is the Son of God, the Son in whom he is well pleased, Matth. 3.17. What will not a Father grant his Son? John 11.42. I know that thou always hearest me. If God could forget, that Christ were a Priest, yet he cannot forget that he is a Son.
(1.) The Excellency of his Person; if the Prayer of a Saint be so prevalent with God: Moses's Prayer did bind God's hands, Exod. 32.10. Let me alone: and Iacob as a Prince prevailed with God, Gen. 32.28. and Eliah did by Prayer open and shut Heaven, Iam. 5.17. Then what is Christ's Prayer? He is the Son of God, the Son in whom he is well pleased, Matth. 3.17. What will not a Father grant his Son? Iohn 11.42