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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.
3. If we look infra nos, below us, here is that may humble us. We see the Mother Earth, out of which we came. The Earth is the most ignoble Element, Job 30.8. Thou art viler than the Earth. Thou that dost set up thy Scutcheon and Blaze thy Coat of Arms, behold thy Pedigree, thou art but pulvis animatus, walking Ashes, and wilt thou be proud? What is Adam? He is the Son of Dust; and what is Dust? The Son of Nothing.
3. If we look infra nos, below us, here is that may humble us. We see the Mother Earth, out of which we came. The Earth is the most ignoble Element, Iob 30.8. Thou art viler than the Earth. Thou that dost set up thy Scutcheon and Blaze thy Coat of Arms, behold thy Pedigree, thou art but pulvis animatus, walking Ashes, and wilt thou be proud? What is Adam? He is the Son of Dust; and what is Dust? The Son of Nothing.
4. If we look supra nos, above us, here is that may humble. If we look up to ⟨p. 117⟩Heaven, there we see God resisting the proud. Superbos sequitur ultor à Tergo Deus—The proud Man is the Mark which God shoots at, and he never misseth the Mark. He threw proud Lucifer out of Heaven; he thrust proud Nebuchadnezzar out of his Throne, and turned him to Grass, Dan. 4.29. O then be like Christ in Humility.
2. Did Christ take our flesh, was he made like to us, let us be made like to him in Zeal,