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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 47 (Question 11 cont.)
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USE, 2. SEE here what great Reason we have to serve the Lord with Fear and Trembling. How ought we to serve Him, whom all the Creatures do serve? And there are two Arguments may be drawn from the Present Doctrine, which loudly call upon us to the practice of this Duty, viz.
1. IF Unreasonable Creatures do fulfil His Word, how much more then should we? We upon whom God hath laid more and stronger bonds, whom He hath given Reason and Understanding unto, whereby we may know His Will, & read His Mind. Sin therefore makes us worse than irrational Creatures, Jer, 8.7. Job 35.9, 10. We may go to all the Creatures, and learn lessons of Obedience from every one of them; none of them eve• ro•e […] against their Sovereign. And when we see all in order but our selves, may it not shame us?
1. IF Unreasonable Creatures do fulfil His Word, how much more then should we? We upon whom God hath laid more and stronger bonds, whom He hath given Reason and Understanding unto, whereby we may know His Will, & read His Mind. Sin therefore makes us worse than irrational Creatures, Jer, 8.7. Job 35.9, 10. We may go to all the Creatures, and learn lessons of Obedience from every one of them; none of them eve• ro•e 〈…〉 against their Sovereign. And when we see all in order but our selves, may it not shame us?