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A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing.…
A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasioned by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]A sermon concerning obedience & resignation to the will of God in every thing. Occasion'd by the death of that pious gentlewoman, Mrs. Mariah Mather, late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. Who entered into her everlasting rest, on the Lords Day, April.4. 1714. : [Seven lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by T. Green, 1714
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There are Two ways whereby the Will of God is Revealed; viz. By his ⟨p. 6⟩Word, and by his Works of Providence.
(1.) By his Word. He hath showed thee, O man what is good, and what does the Lord require of thee but to do Justly, and to love Mercy, and to walk Humbly with thy God, Mic. 6.8. The Law of God is his Word; and it is declarative of his Will. We are to do all the words of his Law; as in that place mentioned in Deuteronomy. There are Affirmative Precepts in the Divine Law, which Reveal unto us what we must do: And Negative Precepts, which Declare what we may not do. The Moral Law of God contained in Ten Commandments, is a standing Rule of Obedience to all the Men in the World. Our Saviour Christ, has reduced it into two general Heads. When there was one that asked him that Question, Which is the great Commandment in the Law? Mat. 22.31. He said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Mind; this is the First and Great Commandment: and the Second is like unto ⟨p. 7⟩it, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self. On these Two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. Moreover, The Gospel as well as the Law is the Word of God; and is sometimes called a Law, Isa. 2.3. Out of Zion shall go forth a Law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. When the Gospel was first Preached at Jerusalem, and then at other Places; that Scripture was fulfilled. There is Natural Religion, and there is Revealed Religion. Men have Natural Religion from the Moral Law, which is written in their Hearts; whence they do by Nature the things contained therein: But the Gospel contains a Religion which is Supernatural and of Divine Revelation.