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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 68 (Question 19 cont.)
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2. HENCE, they s•ell l•se all the mercies and •••s•rt of them, that they hat here in this life. Sinners, in the day of God's patience had their delights here, which though corporeal and beneath the satisfaction of a rational S••l yet theirs, that were drowned in sensu•••y, took pleasure in them, as Luk. 12.19. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much •••k laid up for many years, take thine case, […] bri•k, and be merry. These fools here did hugh and were jocund; and their outv••• man was supported and cheered with these things. They had their good things, Luk. 16.25. they lived delicately, fared sumptuously, had the world at will, had their houses and hands, and furniture, and health, and know, and pleasure, and they thought all was well: but now all these things are done wicked, be loseth the things themselves, and all the light and comfort of them. Psal. 49.12, 13, 17. He must have no more feasts, no […] merry bours, at singing and dancing, and c••••••g; all that he valued himself upon in this life will forsake him at once and for ever.
2. HENCE, they s•ell l•se all the mercies and •••s•rt of them, that they hat here in this life. Sinners, in the day of God's patience had their delights here, which though corporeal and beneath the satisfaction of a rational S••l yet theirs, that were drowned in sensu•••y, took pleasure in them, as