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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. 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, (1 Cor. 2.14.) much less could he dog up these truths out of the shallow mines of his remaining natural principles.
Concl. 6. THAT God can (if •e will) easily inspire men with this knowledge, by immediate Revelation. God's using other ways to bring us to the understanding of the Truth, is not of necessity, but of choice, because his infinite wisdom hath seen it meet so to treat the Children of men. There was a time when God did thus discover himself to some, and by them he communicated his mind to others; and he could have continued it, if it had not pleased him to do otherwise: but it is certain, that God doth not do all that he can do, but […] in his works of Efficiency limited the exertion of his Power by his Will: so that there is no […] upon Divine […], nor a […] of it by men; but if he himself please to set […] unto it, who are we, that we should reply against God?
Concl. 6. THAT God can (if •e will) easily inspire men with this knowledge, by immediate Revelation. God's using other ways to bring us to the understanding of the Truth, is not of necessity, but of choice, because his infinite wisdom hath seen it meet so to treat the Children of men. There was a time when God did thus discover himself to some, and by them he communicated his mind to others; and he could have continued it, if it had not pleased him to do otherwise: but it is certain, that God doth not do all that he can do, but 〈…〉 in his works of Efficiency limited the exertion of his Power by his Will: so that there is no upon Divine , nor a of it by men; but if he himself please to set unto it, who are we, that we should reply against God?