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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 64 (Question 19 cont.)
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3. THEY sometimes fall into scandalous sins, and God useth these as rods to correct them withal. It is therefore an article in the new Covenant on the supposal of such a thing. Psal. 89.30, 31, 32. If his children forsake my l••, and walk not in my judgments, If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: Th••will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. And this is a fruit of His love, and not of His wrath, Heb. 12.6. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, […] scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hence the children of God may have other resentments of these things than ungodly men, and though the things are for the matter the same, yet both the design and operation o• ⟨p. 227⟩them is contrary: nor are they less curses to natural men, because they are turned into blessings to the regenerate.
3. THEY sometimes fall into scandalous sins, and God useth these as rods to correct them withal. It is therefore an article in the new Covenant on the supposal of such a thing. Psal. 89.30, 31, 32. If his children forsake my l••, and walk not in my judgments, If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: Th••will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. And this is a fruit of His love, and not of His wrath, Heb. 12.6. For whom the Lord loveth he chastneth, 〈…〉 scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hence the children of God may have other res•entments of these things than ungodly men, and though the things are for the matter the same, yet both the design and operation o•