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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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(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 d•ed. It is the scope of every rule, as such, to g•i•e to some e•d […] n•w […] was made for a closure with God, •s […] only blessedness, and the Law was t• direct him hereunto, and was ••t•d exactly for it; David therefore calls it a light, and lamp; and declare, them […] have great liberty who keep it, Psal. 119. and for this reason it is deservedly called a law of liberty, Jam. 1.25.
(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 d•ed. It is the scope of every rule, as such, to g•ie 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,