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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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4. WE must […] the […] sense […] Scripture that is ••ll •••r. Da••• tells us, the Law is exceeding b•••d; Psal. 119.96. It is therefore injurious to the Word of God, to put a straitened sense upon it: not that we are to strain it to speak besides the scope & int••tion, but according to it; we must extend it to the utmost: Christ interprets the Command against Adultery, to extend to a look and a thought; Mat. 5.27.
4. WE must 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 sense 〈…〉 Scripture that is ••ll •••r. Da••• tells us, the Law is exceeding b•••d; Psal. 119.96. It is thorefore injurious to the Word of God, to put a straitned sense upon it: not that we are to strain it to speak besides the scope & int••tion, but according to it; we must extend it to the utmost: Christ interprets the Command against Adultery, to extend to a look and a thought; Mat. 5.27.
5. WE must observe the scope of the Context. What is discoursed of, and what place every expression bears in the Analysis; for when we know what is spoken of, it will point us to the Intention of each particular: some words in all languages of the same sound, have diverse uses far different; this will give light in what sense they are here or there to be understood.