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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 8 (Question 2 cont.)
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(4.) THE great peace which is enjoyed by walking in conformity to the Scripture, proves the truth of it. The happiness of these men stands to confirm the verity of the word of God. It is the Psalmists Observation; Psal. 119.165. Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. When there can be nothing but trouble & vexation arise from the following of a falsehood; and it is the Apostle's assertion, Gal. 6 16. As many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them. It brings them to peace with God, and establisheth peace in their Consciences, yea, finally, it brings them to everlasting peace.
Q 2. WHEREIN the truth of the Scriptures as a Rule, doth con••t?
A. TRUTH and Falsehood being contraries, hence that which cannot be charged with any falsehood may be said to be true: but there is something more to be con•••ered in the truth of a Rule, to denominate it so. The general nature of Truth consists in conformity; but the Truth of a Rule requires conformity in more respects than one. In particular,
A. TRUTH and Falshood being contraries, hence that which cannot be charged with any falshood may be said to be true: but there is something more to be con•••ered in the truth of a Rule, to denominate it so. The general nature of Truth consists in conformity; but the Truth of a Rule requires conformity in more respects than one. In particular,