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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.
This is a great ground of Comfort to the Church of God in the midst of all the Combinations of the Enemy, Christ is King, and he can not only bound the Enemies power, but break it. The Church hath more with her then against her, she hath Emanuel on her side, even that Great King to whom all Knees must bend.
Christ is called a Man of War, Exod. 15.3. he understands all the Policies of Chivalry; he is described with seven Eyes, and seven Horns, Rev. 5.6. The seven Eyes are to discern the Conspiracies of his Enemies, and the seven Horns are to push and vex his Enemies.
Christ is described with a Crown and a Bow, Rev. 6.2. He that sat on the white Horse had a Bow, and a Crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer. A Crown is an Ensign of his Kingly Office, and the Bow is to shoot his Enemies to Death.