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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 6 (Question 2 cont.)
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THERE are three things which will be here requi••• […], viz. (1.) That the Scriptures of […] and New Testament are the Word of God. (2.) That God hath given them to be our only Rule to direct us to our chief end. (3.) That they are a sufficient Rule to this purpose.
THERE are three things which will be here requi••• 〈…〉, viz. (1.) That the Scriptures of 〈…〉 and New Testament are the Word of God. (2.) That God hath given them to be our only Rule to direct us to our chief end. (3.) That they are a sufficient Rule to this purpose.
Article 1st. THAT the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God. This Conclusion must be cleared up, because we have already heard, that the word of God must needs be our Rule: except therefore we are sure that this is his word, we cannot rest upon it, as our Rule, with any safety to our Minds: and tho' one would think it superfluous, to do much here among Christians, because they profess their belief in this Article, yet when Atheism begins to ⟨p. 17⟩put it self forth, and the Scriptures to be reproached, and God blasphemed upon their account, it is requisite that young ones be confirmed in the evidence of this truth. Now there are two sorts of Arguments used to prove things by: […] which are drawn out of the thing it self; and these are always the most evidencing, because they contain the Reasons of things in them: and Inartificial, which are Testimonies given to a thing the ••edit whereof is always depending upon the quality of the Witness. And we may prove the Scriptures to be the word of God in both these ways. They have good evidence in them, and they have good witness for them. I shall offer something of both —.
Article 1st. THAT the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God. This Conclusion must be cleared up, because we have already heard, that the word of God must needs be our Rule: except therefore we are sure that this is his word, we cannot rest upon it, as our Rule, with any safety to our Minds: and tho' one would think it superfluous, to do much here among Christians, because they profess their belief in this Article, yet when Atheism begins to