A body of divinity - Watson - V - The knowledge & eternity of God

Required reading
A body of divinity by Thomas Watson (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read '2. The knowledge of God' and '3. The eternity of God'.

My summary
Watson continues to look at the third question of the catechism: 'What is God? A. God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.'

Firstly he speaks about the knowledge of God - it is infallible and retentive.  Then Watson says that if God is infinite in knowledge:
(i) how unlike are they to God who are in darkness;
(ii) see the folly of hypocrisy;
(iii) we should always feel as under his omniscient eye;
(iv) study sincerity, be what you seem;
(v) then there is comfort.

Secondly Watson examines what it is that God is eternal.  If he is eternal then:
(i) here is thunder and lightning to the wicked;
(ii) there is comfort to the godly;
(iii) we should study eternity.

What grabbed me
There was some rather plain teaching on hell today: 'Hell is a place of pure justice. In this life, God in anger remembers mercy, he mixes compassion with suffering. Deut 33:35. Asher’s shoe was of iron, but his foot was dipt in oil. Affliction is the iron shoe, but mercy is mixed with it; the foot is dipt in oil. But the torments of the damned have no mixture. Rev 14:40. ‘They shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture.’ No mixture of mercy. How is the cup of wrath said to be full of mixture! Psa 75:5. ‘For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture: and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them.’ Yet in the Revelation it is said to be without mixture. It is full of mixture, that is, it is full of all the ingredients that may make it bitter; the worm, the fire, the curse of God, all these are bitter ingredients. It is a cup mixed, yet it is without mixture; there shall be nothing to afford the least comfort, no mixture of mercy, and so without mixture. In the sacrifice of jealousy, Numb 5:55, no oil was put to it; so, in the torments of the damned, there is no oil of mercy to abate their sufferings.'

It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Next week's reading
Read '4. The unchangeableness of God', '5. The wisdom of God', '6. The power of God' and '7. The holiness of God'.

Now it's your turn
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