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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 67 (Question 19 cont.)
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5. GOD therefore prepared hell purposely for this design. The infinite wisdom of God is to be seen and adored in all his works: now there are two things in which this wisdom is principally to be observed, viz. in appointing every thing for a suitable end, so as that he may have his honour by it; and in contriving it so as that it may best attain that end for which it was appointed; and this is called his preparing it, in Scripture; when therefore hell is said to be prepared by him, it tells us, that he hath accommodated it to this purpose, that it may be a place most fitted for the showing his wrath in the punishment of those who must be the monuments of his indignation: and thereupon it shall be every way furnished for that design; it must therefore needs be a most dismal and dreadful place. The invention of men hath been fearfully fertile in devising of tortures to afflict ⟨p. 238⟩their fellows withal, and places for that […]: what then must the •••nite God d•, wh•••e hath a m••d to make his wrath knew in a place that •ad never been, it is had not •e•• for that perp•se• How miserable then most their lot be, whose portion it is to hand sell that place• it ••st •eeds be ••tr•le beyond our present capacity of c••ce•v•• 5. though there is enough […] ••red to make the […] in Z•on a••a•d. But this will come under the next consideration.