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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
PRACTICAL NOTES UPON MALACH. III. Ver. 16, 17, &c. › Chapter 9: Containing a sharp Redargution.
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.
CHAP. IX. Containing a sharp Redargution.
OUT of the quiver of this Text I may draw several Arrows of Reproof.1 1. It reproves such as do not think upon Gods Name. It is the Brand-mark of a Reprobate, God is not in all his thoughts, Psalm 10.4. *He endeavours to expunge and blot God out of his mind: though he draws his Breath from God, yet he doth not think of him: his thoughts shoot into the Earth, Philip. 3.19. Had not sinners by their fall lost their Headpiece, they would reason thus with themselves: Sure God is best worth thinking on; is there any excellency in the World? then what is there in God that made it? He gives the Star its beauty, the Flower its fragrancy, Food its suavity; and if there be such deliciousness in the Creature, what is in God? He must needs be better than all*. O my Soul, shall I admire the ⟨p. 107⟩Drop and not the Ocean? Shall I think of the Workmanship, and not of him that made it? This is the fruit of Original Sin, it hath warped the Soul, and taken it off from the right Object.
- 11 Use. Reproof. 1 Branch.1 Vse. Reproof. 1 Branch.
- *Dei nunquam recordatur, ita se gerit ac si non esset Deus. Mariana.
- *Quod essicit Tale, id est magìs Tale.