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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.
CHAP. X. Swasives and Incentives to Holy Thoughts.
LET me, to enforce the Exhortation, propound some Swasives and Inducements to be frequent in the Thoughts of God. 1. The end why ⟨p. 115⟩God hath given us this thinking faculty is, that we may think on his Name. When our Cogitations run out in Impertinences (like water running beside the Mill) we should think with our selves thus: did God give us a Talent to misemploy? did he give us Thoughts that we should think of every thing but him? were these Arrows given us to shoot beside the Mark?
LET me, to inforce the Exhortation, propound some Swasives and Inducements to be frequent in the Thoughts of God. 1. The end why ⟨p. 115⟩God hath given us this thinking faculty is, that we may think on his Name. When our Cogitations run out in Impertinencies (like water running beside the Mill) we should think with our selves thus: did God give us a Talent to misimploy? did he give us Thoughts that we should think of every thing but him? were these Arrows given us to shoot beside the Mark?
2. If we do not inure our selves to Good thoughts, we cannot be Good Christians. Thinking seriously on Heavenly things, makes them stay in our Mind, causeth delight in them, and makes them Nutritive. Musing on Holy Objects is like concocting food, which turns it to Blood and Spirits: so that without Holy Cogitation, no Religion. Can a man be Religious and scarce ever think of it?