Thomas Watson (Puritan)
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Thomas Watson (c. 1620 – 1686) was an English, non-conformist, Puritan preacher and author.
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[edit] Quotes
- Though heaven be given us freely, yet we must contend for it, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" (Eccl. 9:10)
- Seriousness is the Christian's ballast which keeps him from being overturned with vanity.
- The Christian Soldier; or Heaven Taken by Storm (1669)
- Though the way of religion has thorns in it with respect to persecution, yet it is full of roses with respect to that inward peace and contentment that the soul finds in it.
- From Heaven Taken By Storm, Soli Deo Gloria Publications edition, pg. 73
- There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.
- Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion.
- From The Ten Commandments - first published as part of A Body of Practical Divinity (1692)
- The excellence of a thing is the end for which it was made; as of a star to give light, and of a plant to be fruitful. So the excellence of a Christian is to answer the end of his creation, which is to hallow God’s name, and live to that God by whom he lives.
- from The Lord's Prayer
- We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.
- from The Lord's Prayer
