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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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5. BY this Soul Man becomes a Cause by Counsel. Man can both propound to himself his own End, and make choice of the Means or Way leading unto it: He can deliberate with himself about these things, and take that which likes himself, and leave that which is not grateful unto hi•: None can either compel or hinder him in his Choice, but he can follow the Dictates of his own Understanding: From whence it follows, that all his humane Actions are Voluntary & Deliberate.
USE 1. FROM the Consideration of our Bodies, in respect of their Original, we may gather matter of Self-Abasement. This God laid as an humbling thought upon Adam, Gen. 3.19.—Dust thou art, and unto Dust shalt thou return. Think of this, and be Proud if thou canst: When Bodily Excellencies are ready to puff you up, and you admire your selves for your Comely Features, exquisite Proportion, Strength, &c. look down to the Ground, and remember from thence thou wert taken, and what hath Dust and Ashes to vaunt it self of. Let it show all such their unaccountable Vanity, who lay out their Time, Pains and Cost to Adorn and Gild over a Lump of Mud and Clay, and to help to Cure us of this Folly.
USE 1. FROM the Consideration of our Bodies, in respect of their Original, we may gather matter of Self-Abasement. This God laid as an humbling thought upon Adam, Gen. 3.19.—Dust thou art, and unto Dust shalt thou return. Think of this, and be Proud if thou canst: When Bodily Excellencies are ready to puff you up, and you admire your selves for your Comely Features, exquisite Proportion, Strength, &c. look down to the Ground, and remember from thence thou wort taken, and what hath Dust and Ashes to vaunt it self of. Let it show all such their unaccountable Vanity, who lay out their Time, Pains and Cost to Adorn and Gild over a Lump of Mudd and Clay, and to help to Cure us of this Folly.