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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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5. GOD hath forbidden any Additions to be made to his word; and hereby he evidently restrains us to it, as our only Rule. Such prohibitions we find, and they are backed with severe comminations against all those that dare to make them. Deut 4.2. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish might from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God, which I […] you. It is true, God himself added those that follow: but it signifies, that when he sees meet to finish the Canon, Man may not make additions. Hence that in, Prov. 30.6. Add thou not unto his words, left be reprove thee, and thou be sound a liar. And the awful threatening, upon the finishing of this work. Rev. 22.18. For I test […] unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. The Rule therefore is hither restrained; nor can it be either more or less, except God should reveal more.
5. GOD hath forbidden any Additions to be made to his word; and hereby he evidently restrains us to it, as our only Rule. Such prohibitions we find, and they are backed with severe comminations against all those that dare to make them. Deut 4.2. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish might from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God, which I 〈…〉 you. It is true, God himself added those that follow: but it signifies, that when he sees meet to finish the Canon, Man may not make additions. Hence that in, Prov. 30.6. Add thou not unto his words, left be reprove thee, and thou be sound a liar. And the awful threatning, upon the finishing of this work. Rev. 22.18. For I test 〈…〉 unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. The Rule therefore is hither restrained; nor can it be either more or less, except God should reveal more.