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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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3. HENCE whatsoever Service Most received from the Creature, he was to reflect it back to the Honour of the Creature. He was to Govern as God's Lieutenant in the World: All the Service which Man hath paid him by the Creature, is the Creature's Obedience to God; it herein follows the Rule of Government imprinted on i•• Nature; it Serves him because God hath […] him over it, and that can go no further: It therefore now remains Man's Business to receive this Homage, and bring the Acknowledgement of it to God: We are bidden to Honour God with our Substance: And thus Man attains his End. as he is set above the other Creatures, and helps them to attain theirs.
3. HENCE whatsoever Service Most received from the Creature, he was to reflect it back to the Honour of the Creature. He was to Govern as God's Lieutenant in the World: All the Service which Man hath paid him by the Creature, is the Creature's Obedience to God; it herein follows the Rule of Government imprinted on i•• Nature; it Serves him because God hath 〈…〉 him over it, and that can gono further: It therefore now remains Man's Business to receive this Homage, and bring the Acknowledgment of it to God: We are bidden to Honour God with our Substance: And thus Man attains his End. as he is set above the other Creatures, and helps them to attain theirs.
USE 1. AND will not this give us occasion to See & Lament the Miserable Estate of Man by the Fall, who is thereby disabled from Serving to his High & Glorious End. When we consider what we were made for; and consider how utterly we are come short of Ability to perform my thing of it, yea are fallen to be quite Cross to it; and instead of Serving God we Serve our selves and our own Lusts; Instead of laying our selves out for his Glory, we do all we can to Dishonour Him; and refuse to pay Him any of the Homage or Tribute that is due to Him: What Tears are sufficient to bewail this forlorn ••ate? How unhappy are all they that are so, and neither see nor bewail it? Were their Eyes opened, and their Hearts touched, they would not but cry out of their own Wretchedness.