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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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2. ONE Scripture must be compared with another One text may look obscure to us, but if we bring it to another, it will help to give us light to it; and it is certain, that the Scripture as its own best Interpreter; and that which speaks most plainly, gives us to understand that which seems more dark. Thus if we would know what Christ means by D•••s, […] •. 12. let us compare it with Luk 11.5. and we shall find that he intends Sins: If we would understand the meaning of Allegories and Ceremonies in the Old-Testament, we must consult the exposition given of them in the New. If we would not mistake what is more briefly expressed in one place, we must consult where it is more largely •et forth in another.
2. ONE Scripture must be compared with another One text may look obscure to us, but if we bring it to another, it will help to give us light to it; and it is certain, that the Scripture as its own best Interpreter; and that which speaks most plainly, gives us to understand that which seems more dark. Thus if we would know what Christ means by D•••s, 〈…〉 •. 12. let us compare it with Luk 11.5. and we shall find that he intends Sins: If we would understand the meaning of Allego•ies and Ceremonies in the Old-Testament, we must consult the exposition given of them in the New. If we would not mistake what is more briefly expressed in one place, we must consult where it is more largely •et forth in another.
3. WE must reduce all to the form of wholesome words. The Apostle gave Timothy one, which he is to hold fast; 2 Tim. 1.13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of […], in faith and ve which is in Christ Jesus. Thee are foundation Principles most evident […] Scripture: These are so many beads to which all is to be reduced, and nothing contradictory, to these is to be admitted, for then they are not held fast: There is an Analogy of Faith, which the Truth of the Word of God requires it necessary to hold to, and we must observe it;