N02384:154
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. IN a quiet Entertaining all his Providences, with an ••••ty Approbation of them, because He is the Potter & we the Clay. & saying Good is the Word of the Lord, when it never so much thwarts our own Natural Inclinations.
5. IN a quiet Entertaining all his Previdences, with an ••••ty Approbation of them, because He is the Potter & we the Clay. & saying Good is the Word of the Lord, when it never so much thwarts our own Natural Inclinations.
(2.) IN our Words: By confessing him before men, and verbal Acknowledgement of him to be such a God: and professing of all those Obligations lying upon us, to Love, Obey, Fear, and Believe in him. The Tongue is called our Glory, and we make it so indeed, when we use it to declare Gods Glory.
(2.) IN our Words: By confessing him before men, and verbal Acknowledgment of him to be such a God: and professing of all those Obligations lying upon us, to Love, Obey, Fear, and Believe in him. The Tongue is called our Glory, and we make it so indeed, when we use it to declare Gods Glory.
(3) IN our practical Conversation. When we direct all our Actions, Natural, Civil, Religious to his Glory, according to the forementioned Precept, 1 Cor. 10 31. When we so look to our Ways, that they may be to our utmost capacity performed for the Matter, Manner, & all Circumstances, as that God may be Honoured, and his Name Exalted by us. How all this is to be done, is the Matter Discussed in all the rest of the Catechism.