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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 7 (Question 2 cont.)
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7. THAT where God intends to bring Salvation to a person or people, he sends them his […]: not but that he could, if he saw meet, instruct them otherwise; but he hath chosen this way: it is his holy pleasure. 1 Cor. 1.21. For after that, in the […] of God, the […] by wisdom knew not God, it […] God by the […] of preaching to save them that […]. And such is the connection, that he hath made between these two, that, tho' all are not saved to whom the written word came, (many falling short through' unbelief) yet where it comes not, such are left in a state of perdition. 2 Cor 4.3. […] gospel be had, it is •id to them that are lost•. It may be hidden to men, where it doth come in the visible dispensation of it; but it is certainly hid from them, where it comes not at all. Because God hath much people is Cor••th, therefore Paul must preach in that City, Acts 18.5, 10. And why was he forbidden to preach in […] •ythin••, (Chap. 16.6, 7.) but because God would leave them without the discovery of the way of peace? Yea, God hath so conjoined the enjoyment of the word to be preached, with the hopes of Salvation, that the Apostle does so use that E•thyme•• (Rom. 10.14, 15.) E•• then shall they call on him […] they have not be•ived; and how shall they believe in him of […] they have not heard? and […] shall they hear without a preacher? And […] shall they preach, except they be sent? And adjoins that firm Conclusion, Ver. 17. So then saith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Nor do we read in the whole New Testament, that God •••ught any to saith and felicity, but only in this way, viz. by sending his word to them
7. THAT where God intends to bring Salvation to a person or people, he sends them his : not but that he could, if he saw meet, instruct them otherwise; but he hath chosen this way: it is his holy pleasure.