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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 42 (Question 11)
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1. THITHER should a Christian repair for all his •••es, in all his Straits & Exigences, but to God? He professeth himself to have no other Trust or Confidence; he hath renounced the God of […], & whither then should he go but to the God of Israel? And how shall he go in Faith, if he misdoubts his Universal Providence?
1. THITHER should a Christian repair for all his •••es, in all his Straits & Exigences, but to God? He professeth himself to have no other Trust or Confidence; he hath renounced the God of 〈…〉, & whither then should he go but to the God of Israel? And how shall he go in Faith, if he mildoubts his Universal Providence?
2. WHAT hope can be Comfort himself withal, that be shall enjoy Supply & Safety in this World, but from the Providence of God? All the World are his Enemies, they are see against him; if they can Ruin and Undo him, they will: He cannot go to them with any Expectation; if there were no Providence, they would soon Dispatch him; and if he does not believe it, he must needs I espair; he could not stand up against them without it.
3. HOW shall he exercise the Graces of Patience & Contentation without it? If this one Argument should fail a Child of God, I dare say that he can find no other Bottom to build the Exercise of these Graces upon; and that more especially in Times of forest Trial: How can he Sanctify God in the Fires; Rejoice in the Want of all things; Uphold his Profession in Integrity, when he is sore broken in the Place of Dragons; Suffer cheerfully the Loss of Estate, Liberty, yea Life itself, in the Defence of the Truths of Christ; If he doth not believe that there is the Wisdom & Power of God Managing of those Affairs? What was it that stopped David's Mouth?