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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.
5. The mercies of God quicken: As they are Load-stones to love, so Whet-stones to obedience: Psal. 119.9. I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the living. He that takes a review of his blessings, looks upon himself as a person engaged for God; he argue• from the sweetness of mercy, to the swiftness ⟨p. 15⟩of duty; he spends and is spent for Christ; he dedicates his [Greek or Hebrew] to God. Among the Romans, when one had redeemed another, he was ever afterwards to serve him. A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in Gods service.
5. The mercies of God quicken: As they are Load-stones to love, so Whet-stones to obedience: Psal. 119.9. I will walk before the Lord in the Land of the living. He that takes a review of his blessings, looks upon himself as a person engaged for God; he argue• from the sweetness of mercy, to the swiftnesse ⟨p. 15⟩of duty; he spends and is spent for Christ; he dedicates his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to God. Among the Romans, when one had redeemed another, he was ever afterwards to serve him. A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in Gods service.
6. The mercies of God wo•k compassion to others. A Christian is a temporal Saviour; he feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits the Widow and Orphan in their distress; the backs and bellies of the poor, a•e the furrows where he sows the golden S•eds of his Charity: