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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
1. Christ did sometimes go among the Wicked,1 not that he approved of their sins: but as a Physician goes among the diseased to heal them; so Christ intended to Work a Cure upon them, Mark 2.17. It was their conversion he aimed at.
1. Christ did sometimes go among the Wicked,1 not that he approved of their sins: but as a Physitian goes among the diseased to heal them; so Christ intended to Work a Cure upon them, Mark 2.17. It was their conversion he aimed at.
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2. Though Jesus Christ did sometimes converse with Sinners, yet he could receive no Infection by them: his divine nature was a sufficient Antidote against the contagion of sin. As the Sun cannot be defiled with the thick Vapours which are exhaled from the Earth, and fly into the middle Region: ⟨p. 50⟩so the black Vapours of sin could not defile the Sun of Righteousness. Christ was of that spotless purity that he had no receptibility of Evil; but the case is altered with us, we have a stock of corruption within: therefore it is dangerous to incorporate with the Wicked lest we be defiled.