N02384:1860
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 70 (Question 20)
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE I. IS there a restitution provided for miserable men? Let it then be thought of and improved,
1. TO prevent sinking despair, and put hope i••• us all. When you look upon, and are •••ihed with all those amazing miseries which are lying upon all mankind in the wise, and see how woefully you your selves […] involved in it, and are thereupon beginning to sink into despondency, and be filled with a •••rful expectation of this vengeance falling upon you; and begin to say: if the case be ••out hope is gone, and we are cut off for our op••; now look forward, and see what good […] the Gospel hath brought to a company of •••orn perishing sinners, See here, that there is a possibility of your escaping the domination of hell, nay that there is a fair possibility of it, since there is a new and living way opened, and discovered to you: say that for all that hath befallen me, I may yet be saved; this is the hope that is set before you, labour to run into it.
1. TO prevent sinking despair, and put hope i••• us all. When you look upon, and are •••ihed with all those amazing miseries which are lying upon all mankind in the wise, and see how wofully you your selves 〈…〉 involved in it, and are thereupon beginning to sink into despondency, and be filled with a •••rful expectation of this vengeance falling upon you; and begin to say: if the case be ••out hope is gone, and we are cut off for our op••; now look forward, and see what good 〈…〉 the Gospel hath brought to a company of orn perishing finners, See here, that there is a possibility of your escaping the domition of hell, nay that there is a fair poibility of it, since there is a new and living way opened, and discovered to you: say that for all that hath befallen me, I may yet be saved; this is the hope that is set before you, labour to run into it.