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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.
3. If God saith to us, ye are mine, then he will entirely love us, Jer. 31.3. I have loved thee with an Everlasting love. The Lord may give a man riches and not love him: his prosperity may be as Israels Quails sauced with Gods wrath. Num. ⟨p. 167⟩11.32, 33. But when God saith, ye are mine, he cannot but love; every one loves his own. If God hath any love better than other, his Covenant-People shall have it; he will distil the Spirits of his love for them, he loves them as he loves Christ, John 17.24.
3. If God saith to us, ye are mine, then he will intirely love us, Jer. 31.3. I have loved thee with an Everlasting love. The Lord may give a man riches and not love him: his prosperity may be as Israels Quails sawced with Gods wrath. Num. ⟨p. 167⟩11.32, 33. But when God saith, ye are mine, he cannot but love; every one loves his own. If God hath any love better than other, his Covenant-People shall have it; he will distil the Spirits of his love for them, he loves them as he loves Christ, John 17.24.
4. If God saith to us ye are mine, then he will not suffer us to want. Believers are not only of Gods family, but of Christs body; and will the head let the body starve?