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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 2. FROM the Contemplation of our Soul,
1. THINK not that you have Provided sufficiently for Your-selves, or those that Depend on you, when you have laid in only for the Outward Man. Remember there is a Soul, a more Noble and Excellent Part, which must also be cared for, and must also have a Supply laid in for it, or it will Perish. Think of the solemn Caution given by our Saviour in that respect, Matth. 16.26. What is a Man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own Soul.
2. BE exhorted to carry it in your whole Deportment, as those who have Immortal Souls. Bless God for them: Acknowledge his wondrous Favour in giving them to You; by Reason whereof you are more excellent Creatures than any else that were Formed out of the same Lump of Clay, being hereby capable of more Noble and Excellent Employments, and of a better State, even of Everlasting Blessedness, of Communion with God Do nothing unbecoming your Souls; consider their make, and let Noble Actions adorn such a noble Nature, as you are made to participate in: Do not then neglect them, or take no Care of them but above all things lay in a suitable Supply for them: Take heed that they do not miscarry at last; if they do, the Body a well as the Soul is undone for ever: Never then take up satisfied, or rest contented, till you have secured your Souls under the Wings of CHRIST, and thereby laid in for them an Eternal Portion, fit for Immortal Souls to Live upon, when all the things of Time shall come unto an End.