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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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3. Use of Exhortation: Hath God highly exalted Christ, let us labour to exalt him. Let us exalt, 1. His Person. 2. His Truths.
1. Let us exalt Christ in our Hearts; Believe, O Adore and Love him. We cannot lift Christ up higher in Heaven, but we may in our Hearts. 2. Let us exalt him in our Lips: Let us praise him; our Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost, our Tongues must be the Organs in these Temples; by praising and commending Christ, we exalt him in the Esteem of others. 3. Let us exalt him in our Lives: By living holy Lives, Vera religio haec, sine macula vivere lactant. It is not all the Doxologies and Prayers in the World, do so exalt Christ as an holy Life: this makes Christ renowned, and lifts him up indeed when his Followers walk worthy of Christ.
2. Let us exalt Christ's Truths: Bucholcerus in his Chronology, reports of the Nobles of Polonia, That ever when the Gospel is read they lay their Hands upon their Swords, by that intimating they are ready to maintain the Gospel with the hazard of their Lives. Let us exalt Christ's Truths; maintain the Truths of Christ against Error; maintain the Doctrine of Free-grace against Merit; the Deity of Christ against Socinianism.
2. Let us exalt Christ's Truths: Bucholcerus in his Chronology, reports of the Nobles of Polonia, That ever when the Gospel is read they lay their Hands upon their Swords, by that intimating they are ready to maintain the Gospel with the hazard of their Lives. Let us exalt Christ's Truths; maintain the Truths of Christ against Errour; maintain the Doctrine of Free-grace against Merit; the Deity of Christ against Socinianism.