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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 41 (Question 10 cont.)
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and what that is, see, Isai. 43.21. This people have I formed for my self, they shall show fort••••y Praise. That is therefore declared to be properly Man's wisdom, Job 28.28. Unto man be said, the sear of the Lord that is wisdom, &c. How he was to Glorify God will be considered afterward under the Head of Government. 5. HE was also to Improve the other Creation in this Way and to this End. It was not enough that he himself Served God, but he must also lead them to this Service.
and what that is, see, Isai. 43.21. This people have I formed for my self, they shall shew fort••••y Praise. That is therefore declared to be properly Man's wisdom, Job 28.28. Unto man be said, the sear of the Lord that is wisdom, &c. How he was to Glorify God will be considered afterward under the Head of Government. 5. HE was also to Improve the other Creation in this Way and to this End. It was not enough that he himself Served God, but he must also lead them to this Service.
1. THE other Creatures though they were nextly for Man, yet ultimately for God. God in giving Man the Dominion over them, and Use of them, doth not give away his Right to, or Property in them: tho' they were by this Means Subordinated, yet they did not lose their respect to their Last End: God should then have parted with his Prerogative which his Holiness will not admit of: they are all His still, and Man himself too: And if he be not his own but another's, so then is all that he Possesseth: God expects a Glory from the World. He expects a Tribute to be paid Him from all his Creatures: His Works must Praise Him, as well as his Saints Bless Him.