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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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2. IT contains all the Rules of Obedience. This is the second part of our Religion, and it is that wherein our faith is to exercise it self; for faith worketh by •ove, Gal. 5.6 Now Obedience is properly a conforming our selves in our thoughts, words, and deeds to the revealed will of God, or his command, and that which comes up fully to answer this will of God in all points, is perfect Obedience; and that we may do the will of God it is requisite that we know it; and what God reveals to us is the bound or limit of our Obedience. Deut. 29.29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed, belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Now God hath revealed his whole will in this respect in his word. Rom. 10.6, 7, 8. There needs no new revelation; let men but mind what the word saith, and that will be a lamp to their feet, and a light to their path. Hence it is said to be profitable for instruction in righteousness. There are a great many duties incumbent upon man, with respect to God and to men; many relations that they bear to God, to themselves, to them that bear a particular relation to them, to all men; and there are special Evangelical Duties enjoined them; and there is the right manner of performing them: but there is nothing on this account, but this word instructs us in: nor doth God expect any more of us, than what he hath here required, Mic. 6.8.
2. IT contains all the Rules of Obedience. This is the second part of our Religion, and it is that wherein our faith is to exercise it self; for faith w•rketh by •ove, Gal. 5.6 Now Obedience is properly a conforming our selves in our thoughts, words, and deeds to the revealed will of God, or his command, and that which comes up fully to answer this will of God in all points, is perfect Obedience; and that we may do the will of God it is requisite that we know it; and what God reveals to us is the bound or limit of our Obedience.