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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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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.
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 anothers, 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.
2. HENCE ad the Service that they do for Man is intentionally in order to the Glory of God. I do not mean that the Creatures themselves have any such Active Intention, for then they must be Rational; but I intend according to the Natural Order, and Subordination of Beings, in which there was an Impression of the Rule of ⟨p. 129⟩Nature upon them, which leads them all in their blind Obedience to aim at the Glory of God tho' unknowingly: They do therefore discover that of God to Man which should direct and stimulate him to Glorify God by them and for them; Psal. 19. beg. Man may therefore see a great deal of God in their Natures, and the Benefit he hath of them.