The question, "What is God?" takes for granted that there is a God. The belief of Gods existence, is the foundation of all religious worship. "He who comes to God must believe that he is." There must be a first cause, which gives being to all things besides.
In Body of Practical Divinity Thomas Watson addresses God and His Creation, The Fall, Death and the Last Day, and more.
Thomas Watson was an English preacher and author who obtained great fame preaching until the Restoration when he was ejected as the vicar of St. Stephens Walbrook for noncomformity. Watson continued to exercise his...

These words are brought in to anticipate and prevent an objection. The apostle had, in the former verse, laid down many grave and heavenly exhortations: among the rest, "to be anxious for nothing." It is our work to cast away anxiety; and it is Gods work to take care.
By our immoderate worry, we take his work out of his hand is very dishonorable to God; it takes away his providence. Immoderate worry takes the heart off from better things; and usually while we are thinking how we shall live-we forget how to die.
Thomas Watson was an English preacher and author who obtained great fame...

Reader, how happy were it if, while others take up their time and thoughts about secular things which perish in the using-you could mind eternity and be guided by this Scripture-clue which leads you to the Beatific Vision. If, after God has set life before you-you indulge your sensual appetite and still court your lusts, how inexcusable will be your neglect, and how inexpressible your misery!
May the Lord grant that while you have an opportunity, and the wind serves you, you may not lie idle at anchor, and when it is too late begin to hoist up sails for Heaven. Oh now, Christian, let your...

What kind of ministry is likely to do most good, namely, that which works upon the consciences of men? John the Baptist lifted up his voice like a trumpet, he preached the doctrine of repentance with power. He came hewing and cutting down mens sins, and afterwards preached Christ to them. Peter, who was filled with a spirit of zeal, humbled his hearers for their sins, and opened to them a fountain in Christs blood. It is the greatest mercy, to have a soul-searching ministry. If one had a desperate wound, he would desire to have it probed to the bottom. Who would not be content to have their...

Happiness is the mark and center which every man aims at. The next thing that is sought after being, is being happy. Surely, the nearer the soul comes to God, who is the fountain of life and peace, the nearer it approaches to happiness. Who is so near to God as the believer, who is mystically one with him? he must needs be the happy man. If you would survey his blessed estate, cast your eyes upon this text, which points to it, as the finger to the dial: "All things are yours."
Thomas Watson was an English preacher and author who obtained great fame preaching until the Restoration when he was...

The two great graces essential to a saint in this life, are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven. Faith and repentance preserve the spiritual life-as heat and water preserve the physical life. The grace which I am going to discuss is repentance.
Thomas Watson was an English preacher and author who obtained great fame preaching until the Restoration when he was ejected as the vicar of St. Stephens Walbrook for noncomformity. Watson continued to exercise his ministry privately and upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a license to preach at...

It was old Latimer who said, "When sometimes I sit alone, and have a settled assurance of the state of my soul, and know that God is my God-I can laugh at all troubles, and nothing can daunt me." Godliness puts a man in heaven before his time. Christian, aspire after piety; it is a lawful ambition. Look at the saints characteristics here, and never leave off until you have got them stamped upon your own soul. This is the grand business which should swallow up your time and thoughts. Other speculations and quaint notions are nothing, compared to the priceless soul. They are like wafers which...

As for this treatise, it comes abroad in a plain dress: truth like a diamond-shines brightest in its native luster! Paul did not come to the Corinthians with excellence of speech, or the pride of oratory-his study was not to court-but convert. It is an unhappiness that, in these luxuriant times, religion should for the most part run either into notion or ceremony; the spirits of true religion are evaporated. When knowledge is turned into soul food, and digested into practice-then it is saving. That God would accompany these few imperfect lines with the operation and benediction of his Holy...

"This, then, is how you should pray: Our Father in heaven." -Matthew 6:9
In this Scripture are two things observable: the introduction to the prayer-and the prayer itself.
The introduction to the Lords prayer is, "This, then, is how you should pray." Our Lord Jesus, in these words, gave to his disciples and to us a directory for prayer. The ten commandments are the rule of our life, and the sum of our faith-and the Lords prayer is the pattern of our prayer. As God prescribed Moses a pattern of the tabernacle (Exod 25:9), so Christ has here prescribed us a pattern of prayer. "This, then, is...

The excess of impiety which has broken down the banks of common civility and modesty, at first led my thoughts to these ensuing subjects. The spirits of men are leavened with atheism-and their lives are stained with debauchery. I do not know what to call them but baptized heathens. I am sure the floods of sin are risen, even to a deluge. There is a generation among us of whom I may say, that they militate against religion. They are so exceedingly profane that they esteem the Bible to be a fable-and would jeer all holiness out of the world! The "prince of the power of the air" now works in the...