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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.
4. Such as are Fearers of God, God will bestow an Inheritance upon them, as a Father doth upon his Son: this Inheritance is no less than a Kingdom, Luke 12.32. In it are Gates of Pearl, Rivers of Pleasure: and which is to be noted as a difference between Gods settling an Inheritance on his Children, and a Fathers settling an Inheritance: a Son cannot enjoy the Inheritance till his Father be dead; but every adopted child of God may at once enjoy both the Inheritance and the Father, because God is both Father and Inheritance*.
4. Such as are Fearers of God, God will bestow an Inheritance upon them, as a Father doth upon his Son: this Inheritance is no less than a Kingdom, Luke 12.32. In it are Gates of Pearl, Rivers of Pleasure: and which is to be noted as a difference between Gods setling an Inheritance on his Children, and a Fathers setling an Inheritance: a Son cannot enjoy the Inheritance till his Father be dead; but every adopted child of God may at once enjoy both the Inheritance and the Father, because God is both Father and Inheritance*.
5. Such as are Fearers of God, God will pass by many infirmities. That is meant by this expression in the Text, I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son. What a wonder is this, that God did not spare the Angels! 2 Pet. ⟨p. 202⟩