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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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that may be applied to them, with reference to the Promises, Numb. 23.19. God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? And in respect of the threatenings, 1 Sam. 15.29. And the strength of Israel will not lie, ⟨p. 26⟩nor repent: for he is not a man that he should repent. And to these heads may […] part of Scripture be reduced; so that each part of it is true.
that may be applied to them, with reference to the Promises, Numb. 23.19. God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? And in respect of the threatnings, 1 Sam. 15.29. And the strength of Israel will not lie, ⟨p. 26⟩nor repent: for he is not a man that he should repent. And to these heads may 〈…〉 part of Scripture be reduced; so that each part of it is true.
(2.) TO the truth of a Rule is required an agreement between the several Articles contained in it. A Rule is but one, tho' it may consist of many branches; but then there must be no contradiction between them: Truth is always consenting; where there is contradiction there is falsehood, that which is asserted in one place, must not be denied in another, because there would be an inconsistency; and if one be true, the […] cannot be so: This truth also belongs to the Scripture; there is a great harmony in it, as hath already been proved. The adversaries of the word of God have endeavoured to set it at variance with it self, but all in vain; and those seeming contradictions in it have been no more than seeming, arising from the darkness of mens understandings, and perverseness of their hearts: and God hath raised up many faithful Instruments in his Church, who have wiped off all those aspersions, and shown how easily those mistaken differences may be reconciled.