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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
(1.) If we look intra nos, within us: Here we see our sins represented to us in the Glass of Conscience, Lust, Envy, Passion. Our sins are like Vermin crawling in our Souls, Job 13.23. How many are my iniquities? Our sins are as the Sands of the Sea for number, as the Rocks of the Sea for weight. Austin cries out, Vae mihi, faecibus peccatorum polluitur Templum Domini—my Heart, which is God's Temple, is polluted with sin.
(1.) If we look intra nos, within us: Here we see our sins represented to us in the Glass of Conscience, Lust, Envy, Passion. Our sins are like Vermin crawling in our Souls, Iob 13.23. How many are my iniquities? Our sins are as the Sands of the Sea for number, as the Rocks of the Sea for weight. Austin crys out, Vae mihi, faecibus peccatorum polluitur Templum Domini—my Heart, which is God's Temple, is polluted with sin.
2. If we look juxta nos, about us; here's that may humble us. We may see other Christians out-shining us in Gifts and Grace, as the Sun out-shines the lesser Planets. Others are laden with Fruit, perhaps we have but here and there an Olive-berry growing, to show that we are of the right kind, Isa. 17.6.
2. If we look juxta nos, about us; here's that may humble us. We may see other Christians out-shining us in Gifts and Grace, as the Sun out-shines the lesser Planets. Others are laden with Fruit, perhaps we have but here and there an Olive-berry growing, to shew that we are of the right kind, Isa. 17.6.