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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 7 (Question 2 cont.)
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1. THAT the Scripture (as we have already heard) is called the Rule, Metonymically; because it is the Subject containing it. The Rule it self did exist before any part of the Scripture was written: and on supposition, that they had never been committed to writing, the Rule had notwithstanding been of; force: as the Law, that is once proclaimed, is valid, tho' it be not printed, and so dispersed among the Subjects.
2. THAT tho' the Rule hath been one & the same, ever since the fall of man, yet God hath used divers ways to discover it to the children of men. It was not written from the beginning. The first records were made by Moses, who lived in the fourth Period of time, which was near Two thousand four hundred years after God had a Church in the world, to whom he had given the Rule of the true Religion, and these had what was sufficient to guide them to blessedness.
IT will here therefore not be amiss to consider, How God hath communicated himself to his Church from the beginning? And here take these Rules.