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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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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. The•e 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; Rom. 12.6. Having the gifts, differing according to the gra•• th•• is given to us, whether prophecy, •et us prophesy according to the […]. For if the Scripture s•ould build up any thing in one place, and p•ll it down in […], it would not be […].
3. WE must reduce all to the form of wholsome 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. The•e 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; Rom. 12.6. Having the gifts, differing according to the gra•• th•• is given to us, whether prophecy, et us prophesie according to the . For if the Scripture sould build up any thing in one place, and pll it down in , it would not be .