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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 Act, Fear. 2. The Object, the Lord.
They that feared the Lord: The fear of God is the Sum of all Religion, Eccles. 12.13. Fear is the leading Grace, the first seed God sows in the Heart. When a Christian can say little of Faith, and perhaps nothing of Assurance, yet he dares not deny but he fears God. *God is so Great that he is afraid of displeasing him, and so Good that he is afraid of losing him.
They that feared the Lord: The fear of God is the Summe of all Religion, Eccles. 12.13. Fear is the leading Grace, the first seed God sows in the Heart. When a Christian can say little of Faith, and perhaps nothing of Assurance, yet he dares not deny but he fears God. *God is so Great that he is afraid of displeasing him, and so Good that he is afraid of losing him.
It is an indispensable Duty incumbent on Christians to be Fearers of God.1 ⟨p. 16⟩