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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 interprets our not fearing him a slighting of him. As not to praise ⟨p. 20⟩God, is to wrong him; so not to fear God, is to sleight him. Of all things a person can least endure to be slighted. Psalm 10.13. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God*? For a worm to sleight it's Maker causeth the fury to rise up in Gods face. Ezek. 38.18.
2. God interprets our not fearing him a slighting of him. As not to praise ⟨p. 20⟩God, is to wrong him; so not to fear God, is to sleight him. Of all things a person can least endure to be sleighted. Psalm 10.13. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God*? For a worm to sleight it's Maker causeth the fury to rise up in Gods face. Ezek. 38.18.
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3. God hath power to destroy us. Mat. 10.28. Fear him who hath power to destroy both Soul and Body in Hell. God can look us into our Grave, and with a breath blow us into Hell, and shall we not fear him? Is it easy to wrestle with flames?