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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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Concl. 4. THAT there […] in Christ, without a knowledge of him. Faith is a rational confidence; it is a grounded reliance or dependence; and therefore it requires a discerning or apprehending of the Object. Hence that, Psal. 9.10. They that know thy name will put their […] in thee. Faith is the act of a reasonable creature, and must have a foundation in the understanding. Paul knew whom he hath trusted. (2 Tim. 1 12.) A believer hath a reason of his hope. (1 Pet. 3.11.) Faith is a leaning of the whole weight of our hope for salvation upon Christ; which would be nothing better than frenzy, if it saw nothing in him for which it so doth.
Concl. 4. THAT there 〈…〉 in Christ, without a knowledge of him. Faith is a rational confidence; it is a grounded reliance or dependence; and therefore it requires a discerning or apprehending of the Object. Hence that, Psal. 9.10. They that know thy name will put their 〈…〉 in thee. Faith is the act of a reasonable creature, and must have a foundation in the understanding. Paul knew whom he hath trusted. (2 Tim. 1 12.) A believer hath a reason of his hope. (1 Pet. 3.11.) Faith is a leaning of the whole weight of our hope for salvation upon Christ; which would be nothing better than frenzy, if it saw nothing in him for which it so doth.
Concl. 5. THAT it's only by Divine Revelation, that the knowledge of Christ as the Object of a saving •aith, is to be attained. The light of Nature speaks nothing of the design of the saving man by another; of the appointing the Son of God to this Province; of his Incarnation; Active & passive Obedience, death, and resurrection; of his sufficiency to save, and the Offices belonging to him, as a Saviour. These things had never been heard of, if God had not told us of them. The natural man cannot receive them, (