The Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, Comprising His Celebrated Body of Divinity, in a Series of Lectures on the Shorter Catechism, and Various Sermons and Treatises
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The Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, Comprising His Celebrated Body of Divinity, in a Series of Lectures on the Shorter Catechism and Various Sermons and Treatises includes a biographical sketch of Thomas Watson, Watson’s farewell sermon on the occasion of his removal from St. Stephen’s parish in London for nonconformity, and his most celebrated work, Body of Divinity.
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“Use of Consolation. Let this comfort the godly in all the present miseries they feel. Thou complainest, Christian, thou dost not enjoy thyself,—fears disquiet thee,—wants perplex thee,—in the day thou canst not enjoy ease, in the night thou canst not enjoy sleep,—thou dost not enjoy the comforts of thy life. Let this revive thee, that shortly thou shalt enjoy God, and then shalt have more than thou canst ask or think; thou shalt have angels’ joy,—glory without intermission or expiration. We shall never enjoy ourselves fully till we enjoy God eternally.” (Page 22)
“‘That we be no more children, tossed to and fro.’ Children are fickle,—sometimes of one mind, sometimes of another; nothing pleases them long; so unsettled Christians are childish; those truths they embrace at one time, they reject at another; sometimes they like the Protestant religion, and soon after they have a good mind to turn Papists.” (Page 5)
“Ps. 36:9., ‘With the Lord is the fountain of life.’ Thus God is the chief good, and the enjoying God for ever is the supremest felicity the soul is capable of.” (Page 20)
“Faith doth sanctify our works, and works do testify our faith; to be doing good to others,—to be eyes to the blind, feet to the lame,—doth much glorify God.” (Page 13)
“Use 3. Exhortation. Let us every one, in our place, make this our chief end and design, to glorify God” (Page 17)
- Title: The Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, Comprising His Celebrated Body of Divinity, in a Series of Lectures on the Shorter Catechism, and Various Sermons and Treatises
- Author: Thomas Watson
- Publisher: Robert Carter & Brothers
- Print Publication Date: 1855
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Westminster Assembly of Divines › Shorter catechism; Sermons, English
- Resource ID: LLS:WRKSWATSON01
- Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:46:58Z
