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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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3. A Trusting in him, a reposing our •o silence, & leaning the whole Weight of our Soles upon him. The more fully, quietly, and resolvedly, we can do it, the more do we Honour God: and therefore as we are often called upon to trust in him, so they are declared happy that so do; Psal. 2.12. Blessed are all they that pat their trust in him.
3. A Trusting in him, a reposing our •o silence, & leaning the whole Weight of our Soals upon him. The more fully, quietly, and resolvedly, we can do it, the more do we Honour God: and therefore as we are often called upon to trust in him, so they are declared happy that so do; Psal. 2.12. Blessed are all they that pat their trust in him.
4. A Submitting our Wills to his Command. Such a God is to be obeyed and all his Perfections challenge our Submission to him: all Religion therefore is comprehended in a Living to his Will; 1 Pet. 4.2. That be […] longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. And that begins in Willing his Will.
4. A Submitting our Wills to his Command. Such a God is to be obeyed and all his Perfections challenge our Submission to him: all Religion therefore is comprehended in a Living to his Will; 1 Pet. 4.2. That be 〈…〉 longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. And that begins in Willing his Will.