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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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1. IT is profitable for direction. Truth is a Compass, a Pole-star to show man how to steer his Course, so as to reach his haven, and not miss of it: All men are travellers, they have a pathless wilderness to go through', their going right is of everlasting concernment; if you would know your way, and not miss of it, study this unerring Rule, enquire at this Oracle, and you need not be at a loss; hear what the word faith, and you shall do well. Isa. 8.20. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak was according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
1. IT is profitable for direction. Truth is a Compass, a Pole-star to shew man how to steer his Course, so as to reach his haven, and not miss of it: All men are travellers, they have a pathless wilderness to go thro', their going right is of everlasting concernment; if you would know your way, and not miss of it, study this unerring Rule, enquire at this Oracle, and you need not be at a loss; hear what the word faith, and you shall do well. Isa. 8.20. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak was according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
2. IT is profitable for Correction. Poor Sinners are out of the way, and gotten into a more of foolish and destructive errors; if ever you would have a Clue to help you out, you […] make use of the word of God: it must be Truth that must bring you into the way again, and you must search the Scriptures to find it. (Job. 5.39.) This was it by which David was admonished. (Psal. 19.11.) And it directs young men to it; Psal. 119.9. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.