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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.
2. In God are Bowels of Complacency. How dearly did Jacob love Benjamin; his life was bound up in him, Gen. 44.30. All the Affections of Parents come from God: they are but a drop of his Ocean, a spark of his flame; Gods love is a love that passeth Knowledge, Ephes. 3.19. The Saints cannot Love their own Souls so entirely as God loves them. In particular,
2. In God are Bowels of Complacency. How dearly did Iacob love Benjamin; his life was bound up in him, Gen. 44.30. All the Affections of Parents come from God: they are but a drop of his Ocean, a spark of his flame; Gods love is a love that passeth Knowledge, Ephes. 3.19. The Saints cannot Love their own Souls so intirely as God loves them. In particular,
1. God loves the persons of his Children: they are the Apple of his Eye, Zach. 2.8. He engraves them upon the Palms of his hands, Isa. 49.16. It alludes to them who carry about them graven on the Stone of their ⟨p. 198⟩Ring the Picture of some dear Friend whom they entirely affect.
1. God loves the persons of his Children: they are the Apple of his Eye, Zach. 2.8. He engraves them upon the Palms of his hands,