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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.) THIS doth judge & determine all Controversies. Whensoever any truth, that concerns either faith or manners, comes into debate, ⟨p. 22⟩it is not the opinion or authority of men, that must or can determine us safely; but all must be brought to this touchstone, and tried by it. This therefore was the Bernays commendation, when the Apostles doctrine was so much disputed against and contradicted: Act. 17.11. These were more noble than those in T•essa••••ca, in that they received the w••d with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Christ himself confuted all Satan's Sophisms, with, It is written, Math. •. beg.
(3.) THIS doth judge & determine all Controversies. Whensoever any truth, that concerns either faith or manners, comes into debate, ⟨p. 22⟩it is not the opinion or authority of men, that must or can determine us safely; but all must be brought to this touchstone, and tried by it. This therefore was the Ber•a•s commendation, when the Apostles doctrine was so much disputed against and contradicted: Act. 17.11. These were more noble than those in T•essa••••ca, in that they received the w••d with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Christ himself confuted all Satan's Sophisms, with, It is written, Math. •. beg.