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Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects, Being the Select Works of the Rev. Thomas Watson, Vols. I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

“There is nothing of a more unstable and roving temper than the mind of man,” writes Edward Reynolds in the introduction to this volume. Thomas Watson’s eight discourses seek to still this roving mind and bring it to a place of peace by elucidating such subjects as Christ’s loveliness, the upright man’s character, a treatise concerning meditation, and more. In addition to the introduction and...

Every one that is godly It will be first inquired, What godliness is? I answer in general, Godliness is the sacred impression and workmanship of God in a man, whereby of carnal, he is made spiritual. When godliness is wrought in a person, he doth not receive a new soul, but he hath another spirit, Num. 14:24. The faculties are not new, but the qualities; the strings are the same, but the tone is mended. Concerning godliness I shall lay down these seven maxims
Volume 1, Page 386
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