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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 65 (Question 19 cont.)
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(3.) THE seal hath lest it's interest in God, and his savour. God is the souls objective happiness: nothing but he can be a portion for it; it's blessedness is when it can make that claim, Lam. 3.24. The Lord as my port•••, saith my soul. Nothing short of the sovereign truth and chief good can be adequate to it; Psal. 73.2•. Wh•m have ••in heaven but thee! and there is name upon earth that I desire besides thee. Hence that, Psal. 144. ult. Happy is that people that is in s••• a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. God is ours when we enjoy his favour and loving-kindness, and how great a felicity is that? Psal. 30.5. In his savour is life. And, 63.3. Toy loving-kindness is better than life. But this is gone; he hath now no more claim of title to him; God is no lo•ger his God, but his Enemy. There is a separation made by […], Isal 59.2. And hence is a•ar off, Psal. •3.27. And who can express the misery of that s•a• that hath lost it's God? The fruition of […] thousand worlds cannot compensate it. All woes are comprised in it, Hos. 9.12. Yea wa• also to them when I deport from them.
(3.) THE seal hath lest it's interest in God, and his savour. God is the souls objective happiness: nothing but he can be a portion for it; it's blessedness is when it can make that claim, Lam. 3.24