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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 4 (Question 2)
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Prop. II. THAT this Rule can be but ONE. This Proposition is not so to be understood, as if there were not many particular Rules prescribed, to be followed by men, in order to Salvation. Out of doubt, so many several Precepts as are laid down in Scripture, are so many particular Rules to direct us in our way. But the meaning is, that there is but one System or Body of Rules; but […] Directory, according to which he can so order his way as to be happy. This is called a Rule, Gal 6.16. And that this is but One, will appear, if we consider these Arguments.
Prop. II. THAT this Rule can be but ONE. This Proposition is not so to be understood, as if there were not many particular Rules prescribed, to be followed by men, in order to Salvation. Out of doubt, so many several Precepts as are laid down in Scripture, are so many particular Rules to direct us in our way. But the meaning is, that there is but one System or Body of Rules; but 〈…〉 Directory, according to which he can so order his way as to be happy. This is called a Rule, Gal 6.16. And that this is but One, will appear, if we consider these Arguments.
1. THAT Man's Happiness depends upon his performing the Conditions of the Covenant, in which it is offered to him. God is the Author of Blessedness, and it is his free gift. He therefore hath sovereign arbitrary Authority to propose the Terms on which he will bestow it: and having so done, if Man expects to be happy, he must see to the fulfilment of those Terms; else he can never lay Claim or pretend a Title to it. Nay, if he miss of the Condition of the promise, he presently brings himself under the Threatening▪ and for this reason Precepts are not only given affirmatively, but negatively too.
1. THAT Man's Happiness depends upon his performing the Conditions of the Covenant, in which it is •ffered to him. God is the Author of Blessedness, and it is his free gift. He therefore hath sovereign arbitrary Authority to propose the Terms on which he will bestow it: and having so done, if Man expects to be happy, he must see to the fulfilment of those Terms; else he can never lay Claim or pretend a Title to it. Nay, if he miss of the Condition of the promise, he presently brings himself under the Threatning and for this reason Precepts are not only given affirmatively, but negatively too.