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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 2. WHAT cause hath Man then to acknowledge God's Beneficence, in providing for him such sorts of Creatures. Here we have our Food & Delight, our Preservation and Fle• sansies: It is God Himself that made these things; It is His Earth that they grow upon, His Rain that makes them, His Sun that nourisheth them: The works of Creation and Providence do meet in every Harvey: God's E••• ciency is at work in Hear•n, Earth and Sea to provide us with our Livelihood; and yet what a stately Magnificence doth he use in providing to Superfluity; the wild Beasts have a large Range afforded them. When God sor••d his Table on the Earth, he intended not to give his Bread by Weight, or Drink by Measure. How then ought we to honour God with our Substances? And how unreasonable a thing is it, that when God is thus providing for his Creatures, they should be taking up Arms of Pebellion, and drawing their Swords against him? Let Sinners think on it and be humbled; and remember these are His Creatures, and He can starve you when He will: And if you abuse these things unto Luxury, they will but feed you as Oxen against the Slaughter.
USE 2. WHAT cause hath Man then to acknowledge God's Beneficence, in providing for him such sorts of Creatures. Here we have our Food & Delight, our Preservation and Fle• sansies: It is God Himself that made these things; It is His Earth that they grow upon, His Rain that makes them, His Sun that nourisheth them: The works of Creation and Providence do meet in every Harve•: God's E••• ciency is at work in Hear•n, Earth and Sea to provide us with our Livelihood; and yet what a stately Magnificence doth he use in providing to Super••uity; the wild Beasts have a large Range afforded them. When God sor••d his Table on the Earth, he intended not to give his Brean by Weight, or Drink by Measure. How then ought we to honour God with our Substances? And how unreasonable a thing is it, that when God is thus pro•iding for his Creatures, they should be taking up Arms of Pebellion, and drawing their Swords against him? Let Sinners think on it and be humbled; and remember these are His Creatures, and He can starve you when He will: And if you abuse these things unto Luxury, they will but feed you as Oxen against the Slaughter.