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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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1. IT is Great Folly. How degenerate are we become in that we have made our selves Slaves to the Creature, which was made to serve Us. This is to look backward and not forward; and by this means, there is a Rout and Disorder ⟨p. 125⟩brought upon the whole Creation; & thus things are obstructed and diverted, and so made to lose their End▪ as much as in us lies. Other things look forwards as far as they can towards their Last End; but Man who should bring them to God, and offer them unto Him, hath turned them, and Idolized them, and thereby robbed God of his due Glory: and what's madness is it to make himself a Servant to his Servants.
2. His woeful Ingratitude. What could God have done more, to oblige a Creature to be Faithful unto Him, and cheerful in His Service? And that yet after all this he should depart from his Obedience, and take up Arms of Rebellion against his Creator and Benefactor must needs be matter of greatest Astonishment; Isa. 1.2. Hear; O Heaven, the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished, and brought up Children, and they have rebelled against me. And shall not this serve to abase us deeply?
2. His woful Ingratitude. What could God have done more, to oblige a Creature to be Faithful unto Him, and cheerful in His Service? And that yet after all this he should depart from his Obedience, and take up Arms of Rebellion against his Creator and Benefactor must needs be matter of greatest Astonishment; Isa. 1.2. Hear; O Heaven, the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished, and brought up Children, and they have rebelled against me. And shall not this serve to abase us deeply?