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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 8 (Question 2 cont.)
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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,
(1.) EVERY Canon or Article in a Rule, must have a self conformity: It must agree with it self; and thus it holds in common with all truth whatsoever. That which disagrees with it self, is therefore false, because it disagrees; for there is a perfect Harmony in Truth. Every Precept of any doctrine, must have an Axiomatical Verity in it, i. e. it must say of the thing as it is, it must connect things to be connected, and disjoyn• things to be disjoined; it must speak of things as they be: and this truth belongs to the Scripture, and runs through' every sentence of it; there is not a word there, but what is so as spoken. There are various matters contained in the Scripture, and there is truth belonging to each of them, and in them. There are matters Historical, and the truth of them is in relating matters of fact as they were; and there is no story there, but is related right, however incredible some things may seem to a carnal mind; there is nothing Romantic there: Histories indeed are delivered compendiously• being brought in only in subservience to an higher design, but there is nothing spoken but what was. And there are Prophesies there of many future things: the Predictions of after events, and the truth of these is in the Harmony between the Prediction and Accomplishment: Many of these have been already fulfilled, and that exactly. No one circumstance omitted, which hath verified those Prophesies, and the rest shall in their proper season, and are therefore true, because of the certain futurity of them, not possible to be frustrated. There are Precepts there, both Positive and Negative, the truth whereof consists in their agreement with the will of God concerning mans duty: now all these do speak God's mind to us. Hence that,