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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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 ⟨p. 112⟩Woman which she had contracted, by being seduced by the Serpent. Christ in taking his flesh from the Woman, hath honoured her Sex, that as at the first the Woman had made Man a Sinner, so now to make him amends, she should bring him a Saviour.

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Quest. Why Christ was born of a Virgin?

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Resp. 1. For Decency. It became not God to have any Mother but a Maid, and it became not a Maid to have any Son but a God.

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