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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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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.
3. THAT the Creatures Rebellion against Man should humble him. It was not so at First: When therefore some Creatures Serve us unwillingly, others do us Harm, and others with hold their Service from us; it serves to convince us of our Rebellion against God, and show us what a woeful Mischief the Apostasy hath brought Man under.
3. THAT the Creatures Rebellion against Man should humble him. It was not so at First: When therefore some Creatures Serve us unwillingly, others do us Harm, and others with hold their Service from us; it serves to convince us of our Rebellion against God, and shew us what a wofull Mischief the Apostacy hath brought Man under.
4. THAT Cruelty against the Creature is unbecoming Man. It is our Fellow Creature, made for the Glory of God, as well as We, became ours by God's Donation, made to Serve us not to be Abused by us; put under out Dominion, and therefore to be governed according to the Rules prescribed by God: For Man to use Cruelty unto the Creature, is for him to degenerate from a Rightful Prince and become a Tyrant.