PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Select Works of Thomas Watson — Body of Divinity and Sermons
Thomas Watson, d. 1686 · 632,849 words · 737 reading sections
FORTH FRUIT.
2. Grace is known by the growth of it, growth evidenceth life. Dead things grow not; a picture will not grow; a hypocrite, who is but a picture of religion, doth not grow; a good Christian grows in love to Christ, in humility, in good works, Psal. xcii. 12. Hos. xiv. 5. "He shall grow as the lily, his branches shall sp…
954 wordsSECTION 722TEEES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
J. HE blessed apostle in this chapter makes and amongst the rest, he puts up two rare a solemn prayer to God for these Philippians ; petitions for them. TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 763 1. Thatthey might be sincere. Verse 10. 2. Tliiit they might be fruitful, in the words of the text, "Being filled with the fruits of ri…
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1. He who is not good in his relations, goes under the just suspicion of an hypocrite ; let a man seem to be a penitent, or zealot, yet if he bear not fruit proper to his station, he is no tree of righteousness, but some wild degenerate plant. There are some will pray, hear sermons, discourse well ; this is good : but …
922 wordsSECTION 724TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
(1.) Mourning for sin is a duty ; God loves a contrite heart; Psal. li. 17. how powerful with God is the weeping rhetoric that a poor sinner useth ! but yet there is a time when wee[)ing may not be so seasonable; when God hath given us some eminent signal de- liverance, and this mercy calls aloud to us to rejoice, hut …
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1. Unfruitfulness is a shame : barrenness of old was counted a great shame. For a tree in winter to be unfruitful is no great wonder ; but in the spring and summer, to be without fruit, is a reproach to the tree : 60, in the winter of ignorance and popery, to have less fruit was less culpable ; but in the spring-time o…
786 wordsSECTION 726TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Use 3. Exhort. Branch 1. Let this exhort all to fruitfulness. How happy were it, if it might be said of us as of Joseph, Gen. xlix. 22. " Joseph is a fruitful bough?" We love to see every thing fruitful : if there be a tree in our orchard, though with ever such fair leaves, we value it not unless there be fruit; when y…
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2. Branch. It exhorts them that do bear fruit, that they would bring forth more fruit ; do not think you have fruit enough, but bring forth further degrees of sanctity, John XV. 2. " Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit." Grace is like the morning light which increaseth more…
797 wordsSECTION 728TREKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
5. Consider what need we have to be jnitting forth still more fruit; our graces are \et in their nonaefe; indeed in heaven this doctrine will be out of seasoo, we shall not need to hear it; then we shall have done growing, being arrived at our full stature; then our light shall be clear, and our love perfect; but while…
878 wordsSECTION 729CHIEF SUBJECTS OF THIS BOOK-
6. If you would be fruitful in grace, be much in good conference; Mah iii. 16. "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another." There is an observation some have concerning the sympathy of plants ; some plants will bear better near other trees than when they grow alone, as is seen in the myrtle and olive : …
867 wordsSECTION 730INDEX.
Benefits of believers at the resurrection, 203 Benefits of God's children, what they are, 159 Bodies, how sliall we know they shall be raised at the resurrection, 205 Bodies, since they must lie long in the grave, what shall support us till then ? 206 Bodies of the saints shall be glorious at the resurrection, 206 …
900 wordsSECTION 731INDEX.
Forgiveness of sin, what it is, 525 Forgive others, how can we, when God only forgives sin, 551 Forgive, how we must, 553 G Gifts, whetlier sufficient for the ministerial office, 609 INDEX. 773 rapn Gifts, why it is said, give us, in the plural, 516 Gifts, why they are called our bread, 517 Gifts, bread, what…
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Law, whether we may go to it for debt, 551 Lead us not into temptation, the meaning of it, 555 Live to God, what it is, 13 Lord's death, how we are to remember it in the sacrament, 368 Lord's Supper, what it is, 366 Lord's Supper, whether it be oft to be ad- ministered, 370 Lord's Supper, how we may receive it w…
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Satan, why he sets chiefly on our faith, 576 Satan, by what methods he disturbs the saints' peace, 569 Satan, in what respect he is the evil one, 602 Page Scriptures, how proved to be the word of God, 22 Scriptures, why called canonical, 25 Scriptures, a complete rule, 25 Scriptures, what is the main scope and …
814 wordsSECTION 734CARTER S PUBLICATIONS.
" TiTE Footsteps of St. Paitl, is the title of an aWo and instructive worlc, presenting a eonsecutivo history of tlie life, labors, and teachings of the fjreat Apostle. It interweaves in the narrativ o all the direct disclosures of the Acts, the inci- dental intimations of the Epistles, all the out!-iile information ex…
757 wordsSECTION 735CARTER S PUBLICATIONS.
" These catechetical lectures of the late Eev. Mr. Thomas Watson, I have read over, together with some sermons annexed to them ; and, since my testimony is desired concerning them, I do here- by declare, that — though 1 wilfnot undertake to justify every expression or sentence in them, or in any human writing— I And th…
775 wordsSECTION 736CARTER S PUBLICATIONS.
"The design and plan of this volume Is excellent, and the execution graceful and fascinating. Por- tions of It are exceedingly touching. The reader is charmed along it.s pages, amid smiles and tears, to its happy close. The wise traininir of a daugh- ter, the strance vicissitudes of life, the beauty of youthful piety i…
818 wordsSECTION 737Discourses and Sayings of our Lord , Jesus Christ.
By the Rev. T. Binney. 18 mo. 60 cents. Also, a supply of the London Edition of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton; A Study fob Young Men. By the same author. 16mo. 50 cents. Emblems Divine and Moral. By Francis Quarles. 16ma Illustrated. $1. Fritz Harold 5 or, the Temptation. By Mrs. Sarah A. Meyers. 16mo. Illustrated. …
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Public-domain historical work by Thomas Watson, d. 1686. OCR from an original historical scan hosted by Internet Archive; OCR may contain recognition errors.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.