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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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5. THE Woman was taken out of the Man; Partly that all might derive Originally from One, Partly that she might be the more Dear and Precious to him, and Beloved by him as a piece of himself: Gen. 2.22. The Rib which the Lord bad taken from Man, made he a Woman.
USE 1. LEARN hence, That Marriage is Honourable. Heb. 13.4. Marriage is honourable in all, &c. God provided for this at First, and Himself Solemnized the First Marriage that ever was: They then that speak reproachfully of it do both impeach God's Wisdom and Truth
USE 2. THIS may […] Man & Wife when they attain the End of their Creation, viz. When they afford each to other all that needful Help, which was the Reason of their being Made: When they Love one another entirely: When they seek the Temporal and Eternal Good of each other: When they carry it suitable in their Place, and Live together as the Joint Heirs of Salvation: If they do otherwise, they turn that into a Curse which was provided as the best outward Blessing of Mankind.
USE 2. THIS may 〈…〉 Man & Wife when they attain the End of their Creation, viz. When they afford each to other all that needful Help, which was the Reason of their being Made: When they Love one another entirely: When they seek the Temporal and Eternal Good of each other: When they carry it suitable in their Place, and Live together as the Joynt Heirs of Salvation: If they do otherwise, they turn that into a Curse which was provided as the best outward Blessing of Mankind.