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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 70 (Question 20)
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2. TO improve this hope in seeking to obtain it. Hope is the very life of endeavour; what […] despair of they will never attempt to •••pass; but where there are any sparklings of hope, they will push men on to seek their help: and hope can gather spirits from the appearance of a mere possibility, a Who knows? Say then to your own Souls, is there a way found out by the merciful God, in which sinners may be delivered from the wrath to come? I will enquire after it, and seek to be found in it: may an undone sinner be saved? hath God told and assured me of it in his word? and shall I sit still, and perish through my own neglect? shall I die when life is set before me, and offered to me, and, as it were thrust upon me? One would think the proclamation of liberty to captives, and the opening of the prison doors to them that […] bound, should be a faithful saying, and •••by of all acceptation, to every one, who knows himself to be a prisoner of divine justice, and lying open to the miseries of this life, to death it self, and to the pains of hell for ever.
2. TO improve this hope in seeking to obtain it. Hope is the very life of endeavour; what 〈…〉 despair of they will never attempt to •••pass; but where there are any sparklings of hope, they will push men on to seek their help: and hope can gather spirits from the appearance of a meer possibility, a Who knows? Say then to your own Souls, is there a way found out by the merciful God, in which sinners may be delivered from the wrath to come? I will enquire after it, and seek to be found in it: may an undone sinner be saved? hath God told and assured me of it in his word? and shall I sit still, and perish through my own neglect? shall I die when life is set before me, and offered to me, and, as it were thrust upon me? One would think the proclamation of liberty to captives, and the opening of the prison doors to them that 〈…〉 bound, should be a faithful saying, and •••by of all acceptation, to every one, who knows himself to be a prisoner of divine justice, and lying open to the miseries of this life, to death it self, and to the pains of hell for ever.