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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 9 (Question 2 cont.)
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TO make this good, let us consider, that the Rule of Religion being to direct fallen men in the way to Eternal Life. Hence there are four things requisite to render it complete, all of which are to be found in the Scriptures, fully, and are therefore asserted concerning it, in the forecited, 2 Tim. 3.16. on account whereof he tells us that the m•• of God is fully furnished, Ver. 17. viz.
TO make this good, let us consider, that the Rule of Religion being to direct fallen men in the way to Eternal Life. Hence there are four things requisite to render it compleat, all of which are to be found in the Scriptures, fully, and are therefore asserted concerning it, in the forecited, 2 Tim. 3.16. on account whereof he tells us that the m•• of God is fully furnished, Ver. 17. viz.
1. IT contains in it the Doctrine of Faith And is therefore said to be profitable for Doctrine. Faith is one essential part of fallen man's Religion. For his direction about it, it is need full that he be informed both about his Object and Act; he must know who is to be believed in, and after what manner. Faith is grounded upon knowledge; it is requisite that we know him whom we trust in; what an Object he is; what it is that renders him an Object suitable for our Faith's reliance; how he co••e• to be one that may be trusted in by a sinful Creature, what need there is that we come to him in Faith; in what way we may have confidence in believing in him; and how we may come by such a Faith as is saving• and for this the Scripture is full; it sufficiently acquaints us with all those great truths, which concern the discovery of God to us in his back parts, his glorious Perfections; his Essence and Subsistence; his wonderful works of Creation and Providence; the integrity of man in his first state; his woeful Apostasy, and the sinful & miserable condition to which he and all his Posterity were reduced by it; the Curse and Condemnation lying upon men by reason of it; his incapacity of satisfying Justice, and delivering himself; the riches of grace discovered in the work of Redemption; the way how Justice came to be satisfied by Christ for us; the manner and way of the application