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A Body of Divinity
Contained in Sermons upon the Westminster Assembly’s Catechism
Thomas Watson · 1620–1686
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Brief Memoir of Thomas Watson
About this book
Thomas Watson’s sermons on the Westminster Shorter Catechism, the first and best-loved part of his Body of Practical Divinity (1692). Beginning with man’s chief end — to glorify God and enjoy him for ever — Watson works through Scripture, the being and attributes of God, the Trinity, creation and providence, the fall, the covenant of grace, the offices of Christ, and the benefits of redemption, from faith and justification to assurance, perseverance and the resurrection. Plain, warm and endlessly quotable, it is Puritan doctrine pressed home on the heart. This edition opens with the memoir C. H. Spurgeon compiled for it, and Watson’s own Preliminary Discourse to Catechising.
Compiled by C. H. Spurgeon Thomas Watson’s Body of Practical Divinity is one of the most precious of the peerless works of the Puritans; and those best acquainted with it prize it most. Watson was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative, and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature.
Contents
- 1 Brief Memoir of Thomas Watson 15 min
- 2 A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising 12 min
- 3 Man's Chief End 52 min
- 4 The Scriptures 32 min
- 5 The Being of God 41 min
- 6 The Knowledge of God 14 min
- 7 The Eternity of God 13 min
- 8 The Unchangeableness of God 13 min
- 9 The Wisdom of God 15 min
- 10 The Power of God 14 min
- 11 The Holiness of God 12 min
- 12 The Justice of God 14 min
- 13 The Mercy of God 15 min
- 14 The Truth of God 12 min
- 15 The Unity of God 13 min
- 16 The Trinity 11 min
- 17 The Creation 15 min
- 18 The Providence of God 21 min
- 19 The Covenant of Works 22 min
- 20 Adam's Sin 12 min
- 21 Original Sin 14 min
- 22 Man's Misery by the Fall 14 min
- 23 The Covenant of Grace 17 min
- 24 Christ the Mediator of the Covenant 12 min
- 25 Christ's Prophetic Office 15 min
- 26 Christ's Priestly Office 35 min
- 27 Christ's Kingly Office 13 min
- 28 Christ's Humiliation in His Incarnation 29 min
- 29 Christ's Exaltation 14 min
- 30 Christ the Redeemer 12 min
- 31 Faith 13 min
- 32 Effectual Calling 14 min
- 33 Justification 12 min
- 34 Adoption 22 min
- 35 Sanctification 24 min
- 36 Assurance 27 min
- 37 Peace 15 min
- 38 Joy 15 min
- 39 Growth in Grace 14 min
- 40 Perseverance 27 min
- 41 The Death of the Righteous 13 min
- 42 A Believer's Privilege at Death 26 min
- 43 The Resurrection 28 min
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