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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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(3.) THAT since Christ appeared, and hath revealed by himself, and his Apostles, the Gospel truths, the Canon is now perfected; and the whole mind of God (so far as concerns our direction to our end) is there revealed: and now God treats men only by his written Word. Visions and immediate Revelations are ceased; inspired Dreams are at an end: the Urim and Thummim are gone. And now the Scripture is left us to repair to, where we are to look for our direction, that we may attain unto perfection. This is that surer word of Prophesy, to which we are pointed. 2 Pet. 1.19. We have also a m•re sure word of Prophesy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. This is that word by which we must try the words of an Angel. Gal. 1.8. But though we, or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
(3.) THAT since Christ appeared, and hath revealed by himself, and his Apostles, the Gospel truths, the Canon is now perfected; and the whole mind of God (so far as concerns our direction to our end) is there revealed: and now God treats men only by his written Word. Visions and immediate Revelations are ceased; inspired Dreams are at an end: the Urim and Th•mmim are gone. And now the Scripture is left us to repair to, where we are to look for our direction, that we may attain unto perfection. This is that surer word of Prophesy, to which we are pointed. 2 Pet. 1.19. We have also a m•re sure word of Prophesy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. This is that word by which we must try the words of an Angel. Gal. 1.8. But though we, or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.