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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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5. THE stupendous Judgments that have fallen upon such Proud and Atheis•c•l Persons, as have set themselves against God, is a further clear witness. The fearful ends of such men say, There is a God, who vindicates his own honour against such as dare to set themselves in opposition to it: That he doth not do so always, can but declare his wonderful patience; that he doth so sometimes is enough to prove his Being by so many monuments of it. The very Heathen have observed it, and made an Argument of it to clear this truth, that such as have disclaimed or ridiculed a Deity, have been overtaken with unwonted Judgments. Thus Di• goras was burnt, Olympius was destroyed with Thunder, scoffing Lucian was devoured by Dogs. Look into Scripture and see: Here we have proud Pharaoh insolently demanding. Who is God, that I should obey him? and what fearful plagues followed him till he was destroyed? An Insolent Human confronting the most high, till he is mounted on the Gallows. A daring Nebuchadnezzar, challenging God to deliver the Three Children out of his hands, scents grazing with Oxen, till he is made to know that the most high reigns. A vain glorious Herod, assuming the Divine honour to himself, divested ⟨p. 40⟩of his arrogated Deity, and eaten up with Vermin. And shall men see the Vengeance, and not confess there is a God.
5. THE stupendous Judgments that have fallen upon such Proud and Atheis•c•l Persons, as have set themselves against God, is a further clear witness. The fearful ends of such men say, There is a God, who vindicates his own honour against such as dare to set themselves in opposition to it: That he doth not do so always, can but declare his wonderful patience; that he doth so sometimes is enough to prove his Being by so many monuments of it. The very Heathen have observed it, and made an Argument of it to clear this truth, that such as have disclaimed or ridiculed a Deity, have been overtaken with unwonted Judgments. Thus Di• goras was burnt, Olympius was destroyed with Thunder, scoffing Lucian was devoured by Dogs. Look into Scripture and see: Here we have proud Pharoah insolently demanding. Who is God, that I should obey him? and what fearful plagues followed him till he was destroyed? An Insolent Human cononting the most high, till he is mounted on the Gallows. A daring Nebuchadnezzar, challenging God to deliver the Three Children out of his hands, sents grazing with Oxen, till he is made to know that the most high reigns. A vain glorious Herod, assuming the Divine honour to himself, divested