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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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5. THE Scriptures reveal so much of God, as is necessary to be known to Salvation. Tho' they do not discover God in the utmost extent of his Being, yet they declare him as he is knowable by us, and so as may make us happy: not his face, but his back parts: there is enough of God there exhibited to make a man perfect, (2 Tim. 3.17.) Enough to light man the way to Eternal Life, (Jo•. 5.39.) In sum, God is there revealed as a suitable object of faith, for fallen man to trust in for life; as one who can save us; and how we may come to obtain Salvation of him; to give men such a knowledge as our Saviour spea•• of Joh. 17.3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
5. THE Scriptures reveal so much of God, as is necessary to be known to Salvation. Tho' they do not discover God in the utmost extent of his Being, yet they declare him as he is knowable by us, and so as may make us happy: not his face, but his back parts: there is enough of God there exhibited to make a man perfect, (2 Tim. 3.17.) Enough to light man the way to Eternal Life, (Jo•. 5.39.) In sum, God is there revealed as a sutable object of faith, for fallen man to trust in for life; as one who can save us; and how we may come to obtain Salvation of him; to give men such a knowledge as our Saviour spea•• of Joh. 17.3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
6. THAT knowledge of God which we obtain by […] of the Scriptures, is called a knowledge