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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.
1. The Godly grow wiser†. Affliction is schola lucis; it discovers that pride, earthliness, unmortified passion which they could not have believed was in their Hearts, Job 36.8. If they be held in cords of Affliction, then he shows them their Transgression. Affliction cures the Eye-sight.
1. The Godly grow wiser†. Affliction is schola lucis; it discovers that pride, earthliness, unmortified passion which they could not have believed was in their Hearts, Iob 36.8. If they be held in cords of Affliction, then he shews them their Transgression. Affliction cures the Eye-sight.
- †Vexatio dat intellectum.
2. Affliction promotes Holiness*: The more the Diamond is cut, the more it sparkles, Heb. 12.10. That we may be partakers of his Holiness. When prosperity makes Grace rust, God scours us with Affliction. The Godly are beholding to their Sufferings: God by the wholesome discipline of the Cross makes them more humble, more conformed ⟨p. 219⟩to Christs Image: the sharp Frosts of Affliction bring on the spring Flowers of Grace: now if God while he is chastising is doing us good, then sure he deals well with us.