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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.
7. God puts his Children in rich apparel: Psalm. 45.13. Her clothing is of wrought Gold. Jacob loved his Son Joseph, and gave him a finer Coat to wear than the rest of his brethren, Gen. 37.3. He made him a Coat of divers Colours. God loves his Children and gives them a finer Coat, more curiously Woven, a Coat of divers Colours: it is partly made of Christs Righteousness, and partly made of inherent Holiness*.
7. God puts his Children in rich apparel: Psalm. 45.13. Her cloathing is of wrought Gold. Jacob loved his Son Joseph, and gave him a finer Coat to wear than the rest of his brethren, Gen. 37.3. He made him a Coat of divers Colours. God loves his Children and gives them a finer Coat, more curiously Woven, a Coat of divers Colours: it is partly made of Christs Righteousness, and partly made of inherent Holiness*.
8. Such is Gods love, that he thinks nothing too Good for his Children, he enricheth them with the upper and nether Springs; he gives them the Kidneys of the Wheat, and Honey out of the Rock; he makes them a feast of fat things, Isa. 25.6. He gives them the body and blood of his Son, and delights to see his Children spreading themselves as Olive plants round about his Table