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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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2. THAT though the light of Nature clearly discovered to man his Obligation to God, yet it did not show him every point of the Rule, by which God would be served by him. There were some things positive required, which were not to be particularly found in it, but were made known to man by Revelation. Man knew, that God was to be obeyed in whatsoever he should enjoin him, by the light of Nature: but this did not tell him that the Tree of life & knowledge w••• sacramental, and that it was Death to e•• of the latter. The difference between the […] was arbitrary, and not natural. Possibly that might tell him, a Sabbath was due to be kept, but that one day of seven, or this day of seven […], he had by revelation; God is therefore said to sanctify i•.
2. THAT though the light of Nature clearly discovered to man his Obligation to God, yet it did not show him every point of the Rule, by which God would be served by him. There were some things positive required, which were not to be particularly found in it, but were made known to man by Revelation. Man knew, that God was to be obeyed in whatsoever he should enjoyn him, by the light of Nature: but this did not tell him that the Tree of life & knowledge w••• sacramental, and that it was Death to e•• of the latter. The difference between the 〈…〉 was arbitrary, and not natural. Possibly that might tell him, a Sabbath was due to be kept, but that one day of seven, or this day of seven 〈…〉, he had by revelation; God is therefore said to sanctify i•.
3. THAT this light in fallen man is woefully imported. Man knocked his head in his fall, and cra•'d his understanding as to divine Truths. It is but a little that he knows of that Rule. ne broken fragments, & moth eaten registers, ld rusty out worn moments there are; but so imperfect & illegible, that the are but very few of them, that he can spell […] what they mean, and in others he is mistaken. For this, we have that good Man's confession,