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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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6. THE Preservation of this B••k mi••• l••sly, is also an co•d•nce that it is of God. To this also that of […] is applicable, Acts […]. •8. If this counsel, or this worke• of men, it […] came to nought. The Five Books of Moses are thought to be the first and most ancient Books, that ever were: and yet they are still preserved entire, when the other Writers of those Ages are almost forgotten, and scarce any fragments of them preserved, and they that bear their names, are Inspected to be spurious. Solomon's natural Philosophy is lo•t in the ru•us of time, when his canonical Books are preserved. The Books of the New Testament have abode more than One Thousand and six hundred Years, whilst multitudes of a later date are swallowed up in Oblivion. And that which adds to the confirmation of this evidence, is that whereas the world bare no prejudice to those other writings but sought their preservation, yet the moth of time hath consumed them: While Men and Devils have done their utmost to destroy the Bible, and could never obtain. God hath miraculously preserve• this Book . Wh•• […] the time of Heathen Persecution all Bibles were to be burnt, and they •o •y with exquisite tortures, that concealed them, yet all the search, and all the cruelties used could not extinguish this light. God preserved his word, because it was his: yea, hath used enemies to preserve it. The Jews, who stoned the Prophets, yet kept their writings, and why should God so signally own it, if it were not his own?
6. THE Preservation of this B••k mi••• l••sly, is also an co•d•nce that it is of God. To this also that of is applicable, Acts . 8. If this counsel, or this worke of men, it came to nought. The Five Books of Moses are tho't to be the first and most ancient Books, that ever were: and yet they are still preserved intire, when the other Writers of those Ages are almost forgotten, and scarce any fragments of them preserved, and they that bear their names, are Inspected to be spurious. Solamon's natural Philosophy is lot in the ruus of time, when his canonical Books are preserved. The Books of the New Testament have abode more than One Thousand and six hundred Years, whilst multitudes of a later date are swallowed up in Oblivion. And that which adds to the confirmation of this evidence, is that whereas the world bare no prejudice to those other writings but sought their preservation, yet the moth of time hath consumed them: While Men and Devils have done their utmost to destroy the Bible, and could never obtain. God hath miraclously preserve this Book . Wh the time of Heathen Persecution all Bibles were to be burnt, and they o y with exquisite tortures, that concealed them, yet all the search, and all the cruelties used could not extinguish this light. God preserved his word, because it was his: yea, hath used enemies to preserve it. The Jews, who stoned the Prophets, yet kept their writings, and why should God so signally own it, if it were not his own?