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A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…
A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirmed, their excellence displayed, their usefulness improved; contrary errors & vices refuted & exposed, objections answered, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolved; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefaced by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirm'd, their excellence display'd, their usefulness improv'd; contrary errors & vices refuted & expos'd, objections answer'd, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolv'd; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefac'd by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 37 (Question 9 cont.)
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USE 1. HOW much of God we have here to contemplate. Every Spire of Grass sets God before us: Upon the Earthly Carpet is set the wondrous Glory of God: Some things have only a Being, and they say that He is; Others have Life, and they proclaim that He is the Living God, yea a mighty Fountain of Life, there being so many sorts of Living Beings, and so many Millions of every sort, that derive their Life from Him. And how admirable is His Wisdom in Framing of these things, as well as his Power in Producing of them: The Earth had not brought forth one Blade of Grass, had He not impregnated it by his Word: He made these at first, and still causeth the Grass to grow, Psal. 147.8. He keeps the Wheels of Nature still a going: Hos. 2.21, 22.—I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth, And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, & the oil, & they shall hear Jezreel. Hence they are called His, Ver. 9.—My corn, — my wine, — my wool, and my flax —. And there are more Mysteries of Wisdom in the most despicable Plant, than human Wisdom can dive into: Who can contemplate all the Wonders of Generation, Growth and Perfection of Plants, without Wonder? What admiration is to be had in observing the Variety of Colours, fragrant Odours in Flowers, the neat Fashion and party coloured Bravery in them, excelling Solomon in all his Glory? And there is never an One of them but stands and laughs at Men and Women, who are at so much cost to trig up themselves, and are at last out shone by one poor Flower, that is in the Morning and withers before Night.
USE 1. HOW much of God we have here to contemplate. Every Spire of Grass sets God before us: Upon the Earthly Carpet is set the wondrous Glory of God: Some things have only a Being, and they say that He is; Others have Life, and they proclaim that He is the Living God, yea a mighty Fountain of Life, there being so many sorts of Living Beings, and so many Millions of every sort, that derive their Life from Him. And how admirable is His Wisdom in Framing of these things, as well as his Power in Producing of them: The Earth had not brought forth one Blade of Grass, had He not impregnated it by his Word: He made these at first, and still causeth the Grass to grow, Psal. 147.8. He keeps the Wheels of Nature still a going: