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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
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.
2. This in-being of corruption makes the Saints prize Christ more. He that feels his sin, as a sick man feels his sickness, how welcome is Christ the Physician to him! He that feels himself stung with sin, how precious is the brazen Serpent to him! When Paul had cried out of a body of death, how thankful was he for Christ! Rom. 7.25. I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord. Christs blood saves from sin, and is the sacred ointment which kills this Quick-silver.
2. This in-being of corruption makes the Saints prize Christ more. He that feels his sin, as a sick man feels his sickness, how welcome is Christ the Physitian to him! He that feels himself stung with sin, how precious is the brazen Serpent to him! When Paul had cryed out of a body of death, how thankful was he for Christ! Rom. 7.25. I thank God through Iesus Christ my Lord. Christs bloud saves from sin, and is the sacred oyntment which kills this Quick-silver.
3. Sin works for good, as it is an occasion of putting the soul upon six rare Duties.
1. It puts the soul upon self-searching. A child of God being conscious to himself of sin, takes the Candle and Lantern of the Word, and searcheth into his heart: he desires to know the worst by himself; as a man who is distempered in body, desires to know the worst of his disease. Though our joy lies in the knowledge of our graces, yet there is some benefit in the knowledge of our corruptions: Therefore Job prays, Make me to know my transgressions,