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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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(1.) THERE is Humane Testimony, (which will at least help, to confirm the former evidence) and that is of the Church. And here, 1. THE […] gives […] Evidence […] •••ticle, in which all the World, […] •••ge themselves Christians, are a•••••. The man that denies this, is in all men's account judged to have renounced Christianity. And indeed, all the Christian Religion is built upon the Scriptures so that the denial of one is the rejection of the other. These Oracles of God are committed to the Church, (Rom. 3.2) and they are therefore to be witnesses to them. 2. THE Faithful People & •••dren of God is give the testimony of their even Experience to it. They have seen & s•• the Divine virtue and efficacy of the word of God, and are thereupon able to set their seal to it. For they witness nothing but what they have seen & heard, 1 J••. 1. beg. They have found the irresistible efficacy of the word, convincing, humbling, converting, comforting of them; have felt it to be all that to them which it is commended for in it self 2 Cor 3.2, 3 Te are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: For as much at the are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but […] • the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables if the heart. 3. THERE have been thousands & millions of those that have sealed their Testimony with their Blood: and these are therefore called Martyrs or witnesses of Christ. (Rev 2.13. Acts 22.20.) And tho' some sometimes have dyed for a falsehood, yet they have been but few in comparison; and these usually with a dead, stupid, and senseless frame of spirit Whereas the Martyrs have suffered with great Patience, Joy, Courage and highest Resolution and have seemed to have been carried far beyond any natural strength; the Spirit of glory & of God evidently resting upon them. And what was it they died for? see Rev. 20.1. I •ate the […] of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus […] for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the […], neither his image, neither had received his work upon their foreheads, or in their nds. And now out