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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 68 (Question 19 cont.)
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3. AND they shall lose heaven too. It is […], the children of God must leave all they had upon earth, as well as the ungodly, though it be not lost, because they improved it for the glory of God, and they shall then ••ve she comfort of it; but besides there are […] things more, that make it not a real misery to them to lose all, viz. both because they did not place their happiness on these things, as the other did; their hearts were S•••ew here else, they were but pilgrims, and had sufficient for their pilgrimage: and also because when they leave a sorry and sorrowful world, they have an heaven to give them entertainment, which is their own home. 2 Cor. 5.1. For we know, that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a heading of God, an i•use not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Whereas wicked men when they dye, and may be here no more; have no lot in that place, nor shall they be ever entertained in it; it will give them no admission: the holiness of the place is such, that it cannot receive them. Rev. 21.27. And there shall […] wise enter into it any thing that de••••, neither whatsoever worketh thomination, […] maketh a lie: but they th•• are written in the Lambs book of life. It might have been theirs, but they would not comply with the terms, and so they lose it, and together with it, all the joys and delights which that place is furnished withal; they must be for ever strangers unto them, for hell is their place: and who can tell what a loss this is, unless he had been with Paul, rapt into the third Heaven, and seen the unutterable glories thereof?
3. AND they shall lose heaven too. It is 〈…〉, the children of God must leave all they had upon earth, as well as the ungodly, though it be not lost, because they improved it for the glory of God, and they shall then ••ve she comfort of it; but besides there are 〈…〉 things more, that make it not a real misery to them to lose all, viz. both because they did not place their happiness on these things, as the other did; their hearts were Sew here else, they were but pilgrims, and had sufficient for their pilgrimage: and also because when they leave a sorry and sorrowful world, they have an heaven to give them entertainment, which is their own home.