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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.
CHAP. IV. Containing a practical Improvement of the Proposition.
IT confutes the Papists, 1who hold that a Christian cannot have Assurance, because he is to serve God with fea•. Assurance and Fear are diversa but not Opposita, different but not contrary. A Child may have assurance of his Fathers love, yet hath a fear of offending him. Who more fearful of Sin than St. Paul? 1 Cor. 9.27. Yet who had more assurance? Galat. 2.20. Who Loved me, and Gave himself for me. Faith procures assurance*, fear preserves it.
- 11 Use. Confutation.1 Vse. Confutation.
- *Ephes. 1.13.
1Is it a duty to Fear God, what strangers then are they to Religion, who are void of this Holy Fear? The Godly fear and sin not, the wicked sin and fear not. They are like the Leviathan, who is made without Fear,