A Body of Practical Divinity

Name: A Body of Practical Divinity
Author: Thomas Watson

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 ...

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692

[5], iv, 300, 331-544, 801-880, 965-1007, [7] p. · 512k words · Wing W1109 · ESTC R32148

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Christ's Humiliation in his Incarnation.

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Answ. We must not ask a Reason of God's Will, it is dangerous to pry into God's Ark; we are not to dispute, but adore. The wise God saw this the best way for our Redemption, that Christ should be Incarnate; it was not fit for any to satisfy God's Justice, but Man, none could do it but God; therefore Christ being both God and Man, he is the fittest to undertake this Work of Redemption.

Answ. We must not ask a Reason of God's Will, it is dangerous to pry into God's Ark; we are not to dispute, but adore. The wise God saw this the best way for our Redemption, that Christ should be Incarnate; it was not fit for any to satisfie God's Justice, but Man, none could do it but God; therefore Christ being both God and Man, he is the fittest to undertake this Work of Redemption.

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Quest. Why Christ was born of a Woman?

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Resp. 1. That God might fulfil that promise, Gen. 3.15. The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head.

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2. Christ was born of a Woman, that he might roll away that reproach from the

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