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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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USE. Instead of answering Cases here, give me leave to commend the reading & study of the Scripture to all, particularly to young ones, from the consideration of these properties of it, and at present from this of Truth, and I may hence offer such persuasives as these, 1. IT is a pleasant employment. The Wise man tells us, that light is sweet; and what light is to the eye, that is truth to the understanding. This is an Object s•ted to that faculty: it is the food or rep••• of the Soul. We are therefore advised to feed upon it, Psal. 37.4. And there is no truth so sweet and delectable as Divine truth is, and this is that which the Word of God is full of. Job therefore preferred it before his necessary food, Chap. 23.12. David found it so, and was therefore always chewing upon it. Psal. 119 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than ho••y to my mouth. 2. IT is a very profitable employment. Falsehood is pernicious, but Truth is beneficial: and there is manifold profit in it.
USE. Instead of answering Cases here, give me leave to commend the reading & study of the Scripture to all, particularly to young ones, from the consideration of these properties of it, and at present from this of Truth, and I may hence offer such perswasives as these, 1. IT is a pleasant employment. The Wise man tells us, that light is sweet; and what light is to the eye, that is truth to the understanding. This is an Object s•ted to that faculty: it is the food or rep••• of the Soul. We are therefore advised to feed upon it, Psal. 37.4. And there is no truth so sweet and delectable as Divine truth is, and this is that which the Word of God is full of. Job therefore preferred it before his necessary food, Chap. 23.12. David found it so, and was therefore always chewing upon it. Psal. 119 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than ho••y to my mouth. 2. IT is a very profitable employment. Falshood is pernicious, but Truth is beneficial: and there is manifold profit in it.