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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. See the Saints Safety:1 they are ⟨p. 180⟩Gods Jewels, and he will have a care to preserve them▪ A man is careful that he doth not lose his Jewels. God often gives his people a temporal Salvation: if a storm comes he knows how to hide his Jewels. He hid an hundred Prophets in a Cave, 1 Kin. 18.4. The Angel is commanded before he poured his Vial of curses on the earth, to seal the Saints of God on their fore-heads, Rev. 7.3. Which was signum salutare a mark of safety: however God will look to the Spiritual safety of his Jewels, Joh. 17.12. Not one of them is lost.
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If the Saints are Gods Jewels, then how incensed and enraged will God be against those who shall abuse these Jewels?1 Theodosius counted them Traitors who abused his Statue: what will become of them who persecute Gods Saints, and tread upon his Jewels? It goes near to God to see his Jewels sprinkled with blood: what is done to them the Lord takes it as done to him self, Act. 9.4. Why persecutest thou me? When the foot was trod on, the head cried out. The Saints are Gods Royal diadem*. Will a King endure to have ⟨p. 181⟩