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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 40 (Question 10 cont.)
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II. THE Time & Order of Man's Creation. After God had made an End of Creating all other Kinds of Beings, He last of all made Man; God finished His Six Days Works by Creating this Creature: There is a great deal of Wisdom and Goodness of God shines forth in the Order of the Creation: Now there are Two Reasons why Man was made Last, 1. BECAUSE the World was to be His Tenement and He the Landlord; and the Creatures were to serve Him. Though all things were made ultimately for the Glory of God; yet in the Order of their Being, there was a Subordination of them, and they were to serve God, in serving of Man. The very Angels of Light were not wholly exempted from this Employment. Heb. 1.14. They minister to the heirs of salvation. This therefore is not improbably supposed to be the Trial upon which Apostate Angels fell from their Stations. The Earth […] for him to dwell in A while, and Heaven for […] Eternal Abode: The several Creatures were for his Comfort and Delight: God therefore prepared and furnished all for his welcome Entertainment; every thing was made ready for his Coming: So that when he was made, he found an Habitation every way furnished & fitted for his Entertainment; and all this to lay him under the most forcible Obligation to serve his Munificent Creator. See that, Psal. 8.4, &c. 2. BECAUSE Man was made nextly for God and his Service, and to employ the other Creatures in it. There was no other sort of Being made after him, to show, that he was made for no other Created Being. The Creature is to look forward; and there was nothing stood between Man and God, to give him to understand, that nothing should intercept his Heart, but that he ought to make God his immediate End; And that by his improving of other things for the Glory of God, he should help them to serve to their ultimate End: This therefore is that which Man, who had lost it by the Fall, is restored again unto by the New Creation. Isa. 43.21. This People have I formed for my self, they shall show forth my praise.
II. THE Time & Order of Man's Creation. After God had made an End of Creating all other Kinds of Beings, He last of all made Man; God finished His Six Days Works by Creating this Creature: There is a great deal of Wisdom and Goodness of God shines forth in the Order of the Creation: Now there are Two Reasons why Man was made Last, 1. BECAUSE the World was to be His Temment and He the Landlord; and the Creatures were to serve Him. Though all things were made ultimately for the Glory of God; yet in the Order of their Being, there was a Subordination of them, and they were to serve God, in serving of Man. The very Angels of Light were not wholly exempted from this Employment.