N02384:214
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 4 (Question 2)
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.
THAT Man must have a Rule further appear, —
[2.] FROM the Consideration of the nature of a Rule. A Rule is nothing else but that whereby a man is guided so to do his Work, as to su•e it to the End and Use for which the doth it: and the reason of it is, because he may else miss, and so lose his Labour. There is necessarily requisite a Suitableness between the Means, and the End, for which they are used: Else means are vain. The right suiting of them, 'tis the nature of a Rule to discover, and no man can be an Artist in any employment without it. And how then shall Man work out his Salvation, if he have no such Direction?
[2.] FROM the Consideration of the nature of a Rule. A Rule is nothing else but that whereby a man is guided so to do his Work, as to su•e it to the End and Use for which the doth it: and the reason of it is, because he may else miss, and so lose his Labour. There is necessarily requisite a Sutableness between the Means, and the End, for which they are used: Else means are vain. The right suting of them, 'tis the nature of a Rule to discover, and no man can be an Artist in any employment without it. And how then shall Man work out his Salvation, if he have no such Direction?
Articl. 2. THAT Man must have Acquaintance with this Rule. It is not enough that there be one, but he must be skilled in it. To clear this, Consider —