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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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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.
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 clearse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
3. IT is profitable in point of safety & security There are a great many courses men take, but they are at a loss about them, and kept in ••spense; because they have no certainty in them, they may be deceived: but Truth hath that property in it, that it cannot deceive. Men indeed may deceive themselves, through the falseness of their own hearts, by perver• ing the truth; but that is their own, and not the Scripture's fault: if you keep always close to the word of God, you shall be ever safe; and that you may do so, make it continually […] man of your Counsels.