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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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Arg• 1. THE Scriptures speak enough for themselves to prove their ••n Legitimacy. As the Sun proves it self to be so by its own beams, so Scripture-light proves it self to derive from the Father of lights. I do not mean, that it is therefore necessarily the word of God, because it tells us […] it is so: for it were an easy matter for men to make any foolish writing to say as much; but it hath such qualities in it, as bear a manifest stamp of Divinity upon them and carry conviction that none but God could be the Author of them: and they are such as these which follow.
Arg• 1. THE Scriptures speak enough for themselves to prove their ••n Legitimacy. As the Sun proves it self to be so by its own beams, so Scripture-light proves it self to derive from the Father of lights. I do not mean, that it is therefore necessarily the word of God, because it tells us 〈…〉 it is so: for it were an easy matter for men to make any foolish writing to say as much; but it hath such qualities in it, as bear a manifest stamp of Divinity upon them and carry conviction that none but God could be the Author of them: and they are such as these which follow.
1. THE gre•• and g••ri••s Truths, that are therein discovered & […]: Mysteries, which if God had not revealed them, they could never have been known: so far above humane understanding to have found them out, that now they are revealed, they are beyond its comprehension; hence sand to pass knowledge, (Eph. 3.19.)—things that lay •id for Ages; and had done so forever, if God had not revealed them, (v. 5.) — riches unscarc•able, (v. 6.)— things that Angels themselves admire, as not being able to grasp, (1. Per. 1.12.) — Mysteries great and unfathomable.