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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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2. IF we rebel against God, and forsake His Service, all Creatures are ready to execute His revenge upon us. They do but wait for His Word: They are His Armies, and you can look upon no Creature but it may make you afraid; for if God speak it, the most contemptible may dispatch you; He can •end a Fly to Summe• the greatest Emperor in the World before His Tribunal, and it shall do it.
2. IF we rebel against God, and forsake His Service, all Creatures are ready to excute His revenge upon us. They do but wait for His Word: They are His Armies, and you can look upon no Creature but it may make you afraid; for if God speak it, the most contemp••ble may dispatch you; He can •end a Fly to Summe• the grearest Emperour in the World before His Tribunal, and it shall do it.
USE, 3. IT calls us to see God of work in all the Actings of the Creatures. And let us follow God in all, and see how wise a Steers-man He is who fits at the Helm, who so sees to the great Affairs of the World, as not to […] the least, and so looks after the least, as withal to be careful of the greatest, who […] all the drops of Rain, and blasts of Wind; who ca•seth all their Motion, and causeth […] Motion to run down into His Praise: Let Him then have the acknowledgement of all, eve• then when Natural Causes miscarry in respect of our Expectation; when we see them th•• rise early, to eat the bread of sorrow, him that is admirably wise, to want bread; him that sows much to re•p little; see God in all, H•b. 2.13.
USE, 3. IT calls us to see God of work in all the Actings of the Creatures. And let us follow God in all, and see how wise a Steers-man He is who fits at the Helm, who so sees to the great Affairs of the World, as not to the least, and so looks after the least, as withal to be careful of the greatest, who all the drops of Rain, and blasts of Wind; who caseth all their Motion, and causeth Motion to run down into His Praise: Let Him then have the acknowledgment of all, eve then when Natural Causes miscarry in respect of our Expectation; when we see them th rise early, to eat the bread of sorrow, him that is admirably wise, to want bread; him that sows much to rep little; see God in all, Hb. 2.13.