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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 10 (Question 2 cont.)
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[7.] NOTWITHSTANDING the Scriptures plainness, it is required in the people of God, that they use diligence in searching out the mind of the Spirit in them. Wisdom must be dug for, as for hid treasures. See, Prov. 2.3, 4, 5. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, & li•••st up thy voice for understanding: If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures: then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord; and find the knowledge of God. Hos 6.3. Joh. 6.39. We are therefore to use all means, reading, meditation, hearing, praying, enquiring; and for this end hath God set up his Ordinances. Jer. 3.15. And I will give you Pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. But neither is this for the Scripture sake, but for our sake; our dullness and incapacity require it; because we receive things so slowly: so that if we neglect thus to do on presumption of the easiness of the word, we expose our selves to be left either under ignorance, or unto error. But still,
[7.] NOTWITHSTANDING the Scriptures plainness, it is required in the people of God, that they use diligence in searching out the mind of the Spirit in them. Wisdom must be dug for, as for hid treasures. See, Prov. 2.3, 4, 5. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, & li•••st up thy voice for understanding: If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures: then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord; and find the knowledge of God. Hos 6.3. Joh. 6.39. We are therefore to use all means, reading, meditation, hearing, praying, enquiring; and for this end hath God set up his Ordinances. Jer. 3.15. And I will give you Pastours according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. But neither is this for the Scripture sake, but for our sake; our dulness and incapacity require it; because we receive things so slowly: so that if we neglect thus to do on presumption of the easiness of the word, we expose our selves to be left either under ignorance, or unto error. But still,