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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 5 (Question 2 cont.)
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9. THAT nothing but what GOD hath thus revealed to his People, doth or can belong to the Rule. That there needs no more, will be afterwards considered, when we come to observe the Perfection of Scripture: But here we observe, that there can be no more. We are therefore severely forbidden to add. Prov. 30.5, 6. Every word of God is ••re. — Add thou not unto his words, left be reprove thee, and thou be sound a liar. For, if the Salvation of fallen man depends merely on the good pleasure of God, the knowledge of it necessarily depends upon his revelation. How else should it possibly come to be known? Hence we have that challenge, Rom. 11.34. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counsellor? None was admitted to sit at Council-Table with him, or hear what he purposed in the Days of Eternity, or read those Records of his Decrees. Till •e told it, it was a secret. For any therefore of their own head to make any addition to this Rule, is a bold Intrusion upon the Divine Prerogative; an imposing upon God, which he will never admit of▪ nor shall they f••d any other thanks from God, but a severe Demand, Who required these things at your hands?
9. THAT nothing but what GOD hath thus revealed to his People, doth or can belong to the Rule. That there needs no more, will be afterwards considered, when we come to observe the Perfection of Scripture: But here we observe, that there can be no more. We are therefore severely forbidden to add. Prov. 30.5, 6. Every word of God is ••re. — Add thou not unto his words, left be reprove thee, and thou be sound a liar. For, if the Salvation of fallen man depends meerly on the good pleasure of God, the knowledge of it necessarily depends upon his revelation. How else should it possibly come to be known? Hence we have that challenge, Rom. 11.34. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counseller? None was admitted to sit at Council-Table with him, or hear what he purposed in the Days of Eternity, or read those Records of his Decrees. Till e told it, it was a secret. For any therefore of their own head to make any addition to this Rule, is a bold Intrusion upon the Divine Prerogative; an imposing upon God, which he will never admit of nor shall they fd any other thanks from God, but a severe Demand, Who required these things at your hands?