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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 50 (Question 13)
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USE, 1. HERE we see the true and proper Reason of Man's Misery. When we look all over the World, and see Sons and Daughters of Sorrow scattered up and down upon the face of the Earth, born to Afflict•••, as the spar•s fly upwards; when we see Sicknesses, Diseases, Deaths, Perplexities, Disappointments▪ Discontents, and all manner of Miseries, let us stand still and enquire, How a Creature so excellent in his Creation, is become so Sorrowful and Miserable in his present condition; and to satisfy our Minds about it, let us look back to Man's Apostasy, and there we shall read th• Text o• which all this Infelicity is the woeful Commentary. Had not he fallen from his God, and from his Rule, his God had never forsaken him; nor had we ever read or heard such Tragical things, of Man had not thrown himself down into them by Sin; had not that opened the door, these Mischiefs had never got our: Jer. 2.17. Hast thou not procured this unto thy self; in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God.
USE, 1. HERE we see the true and proper Reason of Man's M•sery. When we look all over the World, and see Sons and Daughters of Sorrow scattered up and down upon the face of the Earth, born to Afflict•••, as the spar•s fly upwards; when we see Sicknesses, Diseases, Deaths, Perplexities, Disappointments▪ Discontents, and all manner of Miseries, let us stand still and enquire, How a Creature so excellent in his Creation, is become so Sorrowful and Miserable in his present condition; and to satisfy our Minds about it, let us look back to Man's Apostasy, and there we shall read th• Text o• which all this Infelicity is the woful Commentary. Had not he fallen from his God, and from his Rule, his God had never forsaken him; nor had we ever read or heard such Tragical things, of Man had not thrown himself down into them by Sin; had not that opened the door, these Mischiefs had never got our: