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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 45 (Question 11 cont.)
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2. IT tells us also how unreasonable a thing •in is. Daniel, when he would set forth Be••••ar's horrid Iniquity, so as that it might appear more heinous, aggravates it from this Consideration, That it was against God's Preserving and Protecting Providence; Dan. 5.23.—And the God in whose hand thy breath is, and these are all thy ways, b•st thou not glorified. In ever Sin that you Commit, you A•m your selves in Rebellion, not only against your Maker, (and yet how grievous a thing is that) but against your Preserver: You War against the God that gives you Life and Breath every moment: You set your selves in […] against Him that Feeds and Clothes you: That you N•w are, you are beholden to this Providence of His; and yet you deny and seek to rob Him of the Glory of it; tho' if He should withdraw H•• Ma••••nency for the least Instant, in that very Article of Time, you must needs perish; yet by every Sin you are provoking Him, so to do. All Sin is an Abusing of this Favour of God, which is our Life, to his Dishonour? And what unaccountable Madness is this: Well may God Expostulate with Sinners on this Account, as Deut. 32.6. Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not be thy •ather that hath bought thee? •ath be not ma•• thee and established thee? Sinners, Think of i•, there is none that ever did so much for you as God hath done, and none that ever you did •o much against, as Him: In every Sin, you set your selves to Destroy Him, who, if he did •ot Preserve you, you could not be.
2. IT tells us also how unreasonable a thing •in is. Daiel, when he would set forth Bear's horrid Iniquity, so as that it might appear more heinous, aggravates it from this Consideration, That it was against God's Preserving and Protecting Providence;