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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
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2. BY a Frame of Heart suitable to these Impressions. Thereby we set up his Trophies in ⟨p. 6⟩our Souls, and that is properly Glorifying him: And that contains divers things in it. Especially,
1. AN hearty Adoration of him according to that glorious Goodness we have discovered in him. We acknowledge him King and Sovereign; and accordingly we how down before him, and worship him; Hence we are so often called upon to Worship him, and to Adore him, in the Scriptures.
2. A Fearing of him for his Greatness, & for his Goodness. We see that in him which tells us that he is to be Feared; and we therefore nourish a reverential Fear of him in us, to keep us in our Place, and to excite us to our Duty, in Attendance to that Direction. Isa. […]. 13. Sanctify the Lord of be••s himself, & let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
2. A Fearing of him for his Greatness, & for his Goodness. We see that in him which tells us that he is to be Feared; and we therefore nourish a reverential Fear of him in us, to keep us in our Place, and to excite us to our Duty, in Attendance to that Direction. Isa. 〈…〉. 13. Sanctify the Lord of be••s himself, & let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.