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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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4. THE Design, which is carried on through the whole Book of the Scriptures. There is one Aim, in which both the Old & New Testament do centre, as the ultimate scope they are driving forward; and that is the glorifying God. The holiness of the Scriptures proclaimeth who is their Author. They breath nothing but purity. They call upon, and direct meant to glorify him, that is the Author of them. They must have an Author: they could not dictate themselves. This Author must be either God or a Creature: a third cannot be named. If a Creature, than either one that is wicked or one that is godly. It could not be a wicked, either Devil or men: for these are enemies to God and his glory, hate holiness, and must needs cross their own inclinations, and condemn themselves. It would have thwarted all the designs of impure Creatures, to have given out a Rule so adverse to their aims and ends. They therefore could not be Authors hereof. Neither could it be a holy, either Angel or Man: because these are all of them bound for God's glory; and therefore could not arrogate to themselves that honour, which he who is the Author of the Scriptures challengeth to himself; they have made him their last end, and therefore could not make themselves so: they would not challenge to themselves sovereign power & authority over the Creature, call for adoration, challenge the Dominion & Kingdom. For they all cover their faces before God, and cast their Crowns at his feet, and ascribe all might, power, dominion and sovereignty to him.
4. THE Design, which is carried on through the whole Book of the Scriptures. There is one Aim, in which both the Old & New Testament do center, as the ultimate scope they are driving forward; and that is the glorifying God. The holiness of the Scriptures proclaimeth who is their Author. They breath nothing but purity. They call upon, and direct ment to glorify him, that is the Author of them. They must have an Author: they could not dictate themselves. This Author must be either God or a Creature: a third cannot be named. If a Creature, than either one that is wicked or one that is godly. It could not be a wicked, either Devil or men: for these are enemies to God and his glory, hate holiness, and must needs cross their own inclinations, and condemn themselves. It would have thwarted all the designs of impure Creatures, to have given out a Rule so adverse to their aims and ends. They therefore could not be Authors hereof. Neither could it be a holy, either Angel or Man: because these are all of them bound for God's glory; and therefore could not arrogate to themselves that honour, which he who is the Author of the Scriptures challengeth to himself; they have made him their last end, and therefore could not make themselves so: they would not challenge to themselves sovereign power & authority over the Creature, call for adoration, challenge the Dominion & Kingdom. For they all cover their faces before God, and cast their Crowns at his feet, and ascribe all might, power, dominion and sovereignty to him.