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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 41 (Question 10 cont.)
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USE 1. HENCE then we may Infer, How Unreasonable a thing Sin is. That when God had Made Man so glorious a Creature, and bestowed so much Bounty and Honour upon him, gives, him together with his Image to enable him also a whose Words to encourage him to Serve his Ma••• […] should for all this fall from his Allegiance, and revolt from his God, is the most unaccountable piece of Ingratitude that can be thought of: Did the Prophet so expostulate with David, […] Sam. 12.7. Thus saith the Lord, l•r••nted the King — Wherefore hast then dis••sed the Commandment of the Lord. &c. May not God so expostulate with Man.
USE 1. HENCE then we may Infer, Hoto Unreasonable a thing Sin is. That when God had Made Man so glorious a Creature, and bestowed so much Bounty and Honour upon him, gives, him together with his Image to enable him also a whose Words to encourage him to Serve his Ma••• 〈…〉 should for all this fall from his Allegiance, and revolt from his God, is the most unaccountable piece of Ingratitude that can be thought of: Did the Prophet so expostulate with David, 〈…〉 Sam. 12.7. Thus saith the Lord, l•r••nted the King — Wherefore hast then dis••sed the Commandment of the Lord. &c. May not God so expostulate with Man.
2. THE reason Why the Creation groans under its Scr••tude. It doth so, (Rom. 8 22.) not because Man makes use of it for his Service, for that it was Made for; but because he doth it not for God's Glory, but to his dishonour; so that the Creature is abused by being diverted from its Last End, to the contrary, and therefore it is said to suffer Vanity: And let all that abuse it to their Lusts consider of it.