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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. God doth not correct his Children ⟨p. 222⟩so much as they have deserved, Ezra 9.13. Thou hast punished us less than our Iniquities deserve. Doth God make us drink in a Cup of Wormwood? we have deserved to drink in a Cup of Wrath: doth God cut us short? we have deserved he should cut us off, Ezek. 47.3. The Waters were to the Ankles. Do the Waters of Affliction come up to our Ankles? we have deserved to be drowned in these Waters.
7. When God afflicts his Children, he deals well with them, because he keeps them from Sinning in Affliction, John 17.15. I pray that thou keep them from the evil.
7. When God afflicts his Children, he deals well with them, because he keeps them from Sinning in Affliction, Iohn 17.15. I pray that thou keep them from the evil.
1. The Godly are kept from impatience. When the Wicked are under Gods black Rod, they either faint or fret, Rev. 16.9. Men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God: but the Godly are silent under the Rod,