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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 11 (Question 3)
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I shall here only briefly glance at the meaning and ground of the distribution, it being the first and most comprehensive in all Divinity: A few words then to each part, as they are here expressed.
I. THE Scriptures teach what Man is to believe concerning GOD. Faith in God is the first part of fallen man's Religion. The foundation of the happiness of any of Adam's natural Posterity is laid in believing: it must therefore be essential to Religion; and all sincere Obedience derives from it; for faith works by love; hence it is before it, in order of Nature & Doctrine. Now in our treating about Faith, there are two things to be considered of: viz. The Nature of it, which in the method of our Catechism, will come to be treated of afterwards: And the Object of it, viz. GOD, so far as he hath seen meet to reveal himself to man; and this is that which is now before us. This then is the assertion here laid down, That the Scriptures do reveal GOD to us, as a suitable & sufficient Object of our Faith. Concerning which let these things in general be taken notice of.
I. THE Scriptures teach what Man is to believe concerning GOD. Faith in God is the first part of fallen man's Religion. The foundation of the happiness of any of Adam's natural Posterity is laid in believing: it must therefore be essential to Religion; and all sincere Obedience derives from it; for faith works by love; hence it is before it, in order of N•ture & Doctrine. Now in our treating about Faith, there are two things to be considered of: viz. The Nature of it, which in the method of our Catechism, will come to be treated of afterwards: And the Object of it, viz. GOD, so far as he hath seen meet to reveal himself to man; and this is that which is now before us. This then is the assertion here laid down, That the Scriptures do reveal GOD to us, as a sutable & sufficient Object of our Faith. Concerning which let these things in general be taken notice of.