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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 10 (Question 2 cont.)
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THERE may be Uses or Inferences manifold, drawn from one text, arising from the sense of it. Which are not a new sense, but consequences contained in it: thus when any Sin is forbidden, we may well infer, that such things as do lead men thereto naturally, are to be avoided: from Historical Scripture, when we read that God thus punished such a Sin, we may infer that such a thing is a Sin, and that it is provoking to God: and they who dare to commit it, are exposed to his displeasure: So that the Allegorical, Tropological & Anagogical senses, are not divers from, but Coincident with the literal sense 3. THAT hence from the Scriptures themselves, we may fetch safe rules for the interpretation of them, viz.
1. ALL […] expressions must be reduced to the Grammatical sense, and accordingly ••ter•reted. Types and […] must be a•lo• e• to the Scriptures as well as to other writings, else God had not spoken in our mode, and this wa• is not to obscure, but illustrate, and also to […] the af••ct•ons; but still we must reduce it to the Intention: Rhetoric is but an Ornament of Speech, and must therefore be brought to the Grammar of it. Thus when Christ calls Her•d […] Fox, the sense is a Cra••y Fa••y. When the L••b is called the P•ss••r, the meaning is, it is the token of Gods passing over. When Christ saith this •re•d is my dy, it intends, it is a Srmentl sign of his Body; and a great many the like.