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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 5 (Question 2 cont.)
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SERMON V.
Prop. III. THAT the WORD of GOD is this only Rule. If Man cannot be happy, without a Rule that can direct him to it, it must needs be his great concernment to know it, and not be mistaken. Now when the Word of God is said to be the Rule, it is a metonymical Expression, and intends that it is therein contained & no where else. Here therefore, two things are to be considered.
Prop. III. THAT the WORD of GOD is this only Rule. If Man cannot be happy, without a Rule that can direct him to it, it must needs be his great concernment to know it, and not be mistaken. Now when the Word of God is said to be the Rule, it is a me•onymical Expression, and intends that it is therein contained & no where else. Here therefore, two things are to be considered.
(1.) What we understand by the Word of God? (2.) How it appears to be the only Rule?
Q. 1. WHAT are •• to understand by the Word of God?