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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 11 (Question 3)
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There man was to obey by a Concreated power of his own; here he is to derive all his strength from another, viz. Jesus Christ, the head of Influences: there he was to have earned his happiness by his doing; here he is to resolve all his hopes for Salvation into the Righteousness of Christ; and to say of his own works, when he hath done all, that he is unprofitable: there the least defect brought him under Condemnation; here Uprightness & Integrity will be accepted of him: and none of these things had so much as the least hint of discovery […] law and light of nature, but are purely positive, and of revelation. 7. THESE are all commended to us in the Scriptures. The whole concern of Evangelical Obedience is there set down. There are both the Duties themselves. Mic. 6.8. He hath showed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? And the Way in which they are to be done; and the Fountain, whence strength is to be fetched; and the precious Encouragements to engage us in serving of God, to be found. Rom. 10.6, 7, 8. But the righteousness which is of faith, speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is to bring Christ down from above) Or, who shalt descend into the deep? (that is to bring up Christ again from the dead) But […] saith i•? […] •ven in thy •outh and in •pans• is the word of faith which we preach. And thus are they able to make the man of God perfect. (2 Tim. 3.17.) We are therefore directed hither in all Cases. Isai. 8.20. To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
There man was to obey by a Concreated power of his own; here he is to derive all his strength from another, viz. Jesus Christ, the head of Influences: there he was to have earned his happiness by his doing; here he is to resolve all his hopes for Salvation into the Righteousness of Christ; and to say of his own works, when he hath done all, that he is unprofitable: there the least defect brought him under Condemnation; here Uprightness & Integrity will be accepted of him: and none of these things had so much as the least hint of discovery law and light of nature, but are purely positive, and of revelation. 7. THESE are all commended to us in the Scriptures. The whole concern of Evangelical Obedience is there set down. There are both the Duties themselves.