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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 51 (Question 13 cont.)
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(2.) IT was necessary that man should have a […] given him to wa•• by. For as he was made by a rule, so he must be guided by a rule. If it had not been given to him, he could never have been happy; without it he had been left in the dark without any light, yea in a wide wilderness without any way: he could not have acted well without a law; for, to act well is to act by a Rule. God therefore did man no wrong in giving him a law to •aint him to happiness, for he wrought it on his heart, and made him completely fit to attend it. Eccl. 7.29. God made man upright.
(2.) IT was necessary that man should have a 〈…〉 given him to wa•• by. For as he was made by a rule, so he must be guided by a rule. If it had not been given to him, he could never have been happy; without it he had been left in the dark without any light, yea in a wide wilderness without any way: he could not have acted well without a law; for, to act well is to act by a Rule. God therefore did man no wrong in giving him a law to •aint him to happiness, for he wrought it on his heart, and made him compleatly fit to attend it. Eccl. 7.29. God made man upright.
(3.) THE proper scope and nature of the Law, was to be a guide to man to the enjoyment of Life and Happiness. Isai. 56.2. Jam. 1.25. But whose locketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein, […] being not […], but a d•er of the […], is […] in his ded. It is the scope of every rule, as such, to gie to some ed […] nw […] was made for a closure with God, s […] only blessedness, and the Law was t direct him hereunto, and was td exactly for it; David therefore calls it a light, and lamp; and declare, them […] have great liberty who keep it,