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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.
116. The great benefit which will accrue to us, if we love God, 1 Cor. 2.9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. The Eye hath seen rare sights, the Ear hath heard sweet Music; But eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor can the heart of man conceive, what God hath prepared for them that love him! Such glorious rewards ⟨p. 131⟩are laid up, that (as Austin saith) Faith it self is not able to comprehend. God hath promised a Crown of life to them that love him, James 1.12. This Crown encircles within it all blessedness, Riches, and Glory, and Delight; and it is a Crown that fades not away, 1 Pet. 5.4. Thus God would bribe us to love him by rewards.
116. The great benefit which will accrue to us, if we love God, 1 Cor. 2.9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entred into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. The Eye hath seen rare sights, the Ear hath heard sweet Musick; But eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor can the heart of man conceive, what God hath prepared for them that love him! Such glorious rewards ⟨p. 131⟩are laid up, that (as Austin saith) Faith it self is not able to comprehend. God hath promised a Crown of life to them that love him, Iames 1.12. This Crown encircles within it all blessednesse, Riches, and Glory, and Delight; and it is a Crown that fades not away, 1 Pet. 5.4. Thus God would bribe us to love him by rewards.