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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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(2.) THAT from Moses to Christ, God instructed his Church, partly by Writing, and partly by the continuance of Revelation and Tradition. God having chosen Abraham & his Posterity to be his peculiar People, and they being now grown up to a Nation, and God's worship to be no longer restrained to private Families, the lives also of the Fathers being reduced to a short term, and the People having been woefully defiled with the false worship of the Egyptians, and being now called out of Egypt, God gives them his law in writing; partly written by his own hand, partly by Moses, to whom he did immediately impart it, and commanded that it should be left upon Record. Yet there was but part of the Scripture then given, in which the Rules of life were obscurely wrapped up; and therefore God continued extraordinary Revelations, inspired Prophets, sent his mind to his People, by such to whom he appeared, either in Visions or Dreams, or by his Angel. And by these he continued to be commending to writing, such other parts of Scripture, as were needful, for the further instructing or reforming of them. Hence the writings of the Prophets were added to those of Moses. 2 Pet 1.20, 21. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost.
(2.) THAT from Moses to Christ, God instructed his Church, partly by Writing, and partly by the continuance of Revelation and Tradition. God having chosen Abraham & his Posterity to be his peculiar People, and they being now grown up to a Nation, and God's worship to be no longer restrained to private Families, the lives also of the Fathers being reduced to a short term, and the People having been wofully defiled with the false worship of the Aegyptians, and being now called out of Aegypt, God gives them his law in writing; partly written by his own hand, partly by Moses, to whom he did immediately impart it, and commanded that it should be left upon Record. Yet there was but part of the Scripture then given, in which the Rules of life were obscurely wrapt up; and therefore God continued extraordinary Revelations, inspired Prophets, sent his mind to his People, by such to whom he appeared, either in Visions or Dreams, or by his Angel. And by these he continued to be commending to writing, such other parts of Scripture, as were needful, for the further instructing or reforming of them. Hence the writings of the Prophets were added to those of Moses. 2 Pet 1.20, 21. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost.