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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 39 (Question 10)
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USE, 1. THIS calls for Homage & Submission from Man unto God. The Rule of Creation demands his Obedience: Remember that any time you Commit any Sin, you rise up against your Creator: Remember Man, thou didst not make thy self, and therefore that thou art not thine own Lord & Master: thy Tongue, Hands, & Heart are none of thine own, and therefore thou oughtest not to live as thou listest: Quicken thy dull Heart unto Duty by this; I receive my whole Being from God, and therefore why should I not be wholly for Him?
USE, 2. SEE what an Excellent Being Man was as he came out of the Hands of his Creator. He must be a rare piece of Workmanship, about whose making God should call a Counsel & enter into Deliberation: God made all things in wondrous Wisdom; but here was a Result of all God's Creating Wisdom gathered together in One: There were many Beams of His Wisdom, Power and Goodness scattered among other Creatures; here they are all contracted in this little Model: Look into the Third Heaven, and you may see an Inhabitant of that Place dwelling in an House of Clay: look into the lower World, and you may see the Four Flements comprised in his Bodily Frame; the Life of Plants in his Vegetative, Stars in his Motive Soul, Brutes in his Sensitive, ⟨p. 123⟩[…]. See how curiously and wonderfully he is made: And have a care of spoiling the Frame that was so exquisitely Composed, of undoing that Creature which God would not make without Consultation.
USE, 2. SEE what an Excellent Being Man was as he came out of the Hands of his Creator. He must be a rare piece of Workmanship, about whose making God should call a Counsel & enter into Deliberation: God made all things in wondrous Wisdom; but here was a Result of all God's Creating Wisdom gathered together in One: There were many Beams of His Wisdom, Power and Goodness scattered among other Creatures; here they are all contracted in this little Model: Look into the Third Heaven, and you may see an Inhabitant of that Place dwelling in an House of Clay: look into the lower World, and you may see the Four Flements comprized in his Bodily Frame; the Life of Plants in his Vegetative, Stars in his Motive Soul, Brutes in his Sensitive,