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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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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.
4. THAT Crucity 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 govern'd 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.
5. HOW Preposterous a thing is it for Men to make themselves Slaves to the Creatures. What is this but to become a Servant to those things which were made to Serve him? Let us be ashamed of it, and endeavour to recover our Dominion; i. e. Let us in Heart be above them, no longer to Serve them, or our Lusts by them, but making them Serve us, in helping us in the Service of God.
VI. IT follows that we consider Man's End; (for tho' it be not mentioned in the Answer, yet it is to be inferred from it.) God makes nothing in vain; and by the Manner of his make, the Nature that was given him, the Perfection that was bestowed upon him, and the Rank he was placed in among the Creatures, we may gather what his Special End was; and accordingly take it up in This Description: