Posts from June 2014

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Admire Where You Cannot Fathom

by Thomas Provost

“Admire Where You Cannot Fathom” By Thomas Watson (1620 – 1686)   The following quote is taken from Thomas Watson’s book “A Body of Divinity.”  Thomas Watson is becoming one of my favorite English Puritans.  “A Body of Divinity” is a part of his three-volume commentary on the Westminster Shorter Catechism.  The other two volumes […]

Thomas Watson on God’s Mercy

by Thomas Provost

GOD’S MERCY –   “Oh give thanks to the LORD; for He is good; for His mercy endures forever” Ps. 136:1.   “God’s mercy is free.  To set up merit is to destroy mercy.  Nothing can deserve mercy, because we are polluted in our blood (whole being); nor force it.  We may force God to […]