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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 12 (Question 4)
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There are some Insects so small, that our sight cannot discern them, without the help of a glass, and that yet they should have in them all the Organs of sense and motion, is astonishing. What shall we then say, to the more stupendous pieces of this frame, and the admirable Disposure of them; the vast body of this Earth hanging amidst the Air, and lying fast there, upon its own Centre: the great frame of the Heavens, to which compared, the Earth is little more than an Atom, and those curious Lamps there lighted up & kept burning; especially that glorious Sun in the firmament, but for which the lower world must suffer a perpetual Night. The Psalmist assures us, that these preach a God to us. Psal. 19. beg. The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto day uttereth speech, &c. Or if we consider the harmony of the whole in all its parts, or the admirable suiting of the things that are made one to another, so that there is nothing in vain, or useless, or incapable of being serviceable in its place, its nature being every way adapted to the place it bears: every wheel in this curious watch moving aright: and what less than Infinite wisdom, could so contrive and compose this? This could not possibly be chance, but must be the work of a curious Artificer; and that can be none but God. Psal. 104.24. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. The Apostle therefore assures us, that the things made do give us light enough to discover God, in such Attributes as are proper to him and no other. Rom. 1.19, 20: Because that which may be known of God, is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power & Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
There are some Insects so small, that our sight cannot discern them, without the help of a glass, and that yet they should have in them all the Organs of sense and motion, is astonishing. What shall we then say, to the more stupendous pieces of this frame, and the admirable Disposure of them; the vast body of this Earth hanging amidst the Air, and lying fast there, upon its own Center: the great frame of the Heavens, to which compared, the Earth is little more than an Atome, and those curious Lamps there lighted up & kept burning; especially that glorious Sun in the firmament, but for which the lower world must suffer a perpetual Night. The Psalmist assures us, that these preach a God to us.