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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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3. IT contains in it sufficient Refutation of all the Errors that are opposite to the doctrine of faith. It is a Rule by which all Doctrines may be tried & discovered, whether they be •ound or false. And it is so said to be profitable for reproof. The word is used to signify a refutation of false Opinions, and that by evidence; and so it is translated evidence, Heb. 11.1. Satan and his Emissaries endeavour to pervert men from the truth, and draw them to follow doctrines of Devils; the Rule is not perfect, unless it be fit to try & discover these by: But if all the Heresies in the world be laid by the Scripture, they will fall before it. A straight Rule will make that which is crooked be seen to be so: there are many plausible pretences used to set off errors by; but the Scripture plainly manifests the vanity of them all. This doubtless was the square the Church of Ephesus made use of, Rev. 2.2. — Thou hast tried them, which say they are A••ct his, and are not; and hast found them liars. We are commanded not to believe every spirit, but to try them, 1 Joh. 4.1. and it is by the word this proof is to be made, Isai. 8.20.
3. IT contains in it sufficient Refutation of all the Errors that are opposite to the doctrine of faith. It is a Rule by which all Doctrines may be tried & discovered, whether they be •ound or false. And it is so said to be profitable for reproof. The word is used to signifie a refutation of false Opinions, and that by evidence; and so it is translated evidence, Heb. 11.1. Satan and his Emissaries endeavour to pervert men from the truth, and draw them to follow doctrines of Devils; the Rule is not perfect, unless it be fit to try & discover these by: But if all the Heresies in the world be laid by the Scripture, they will fall before it. A straight Rule will make that which is crooked be seen to be so: there are many plausible pretences used to set off errors by; but the Scripture plainly manifests the vanity of them all. This doubtless was the square the Church of Ephesus made use of,