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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 13 (Question 4 cont.)
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1. BEWARE of diving too deep into the M•steries of the Divinity. Quaint curiosity here is but distraction: faithful ignorance is better than temerarion knowledge. Know for certain, that when your Understanding hath fluttered as high as the wings of Reason can carry it, you will find such riddles in the Deity, as you will never be able to unfold.
2. LET us be much in meditating upon this God. The more God's People see of him, the more they discover how little they know of him; and knowing, that they can never know too much, it puts them upon the Apostle's Practice, Phil. 3.13. Brethren, I count not my self to have apprehended: but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, & reach•• forth unto those things which are before, &c. […] their prayer is after him, Eph. 3.16, to 20. That God would grant them according to the riches of his glory, to be strong•••ed with might, by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in their hearts by faith; that they being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that they might be filled with all the fullness of God.
2. LET us be much in meditating upon this God. The more God's People see of him, the more they discover how little they know of him; and knowing, that they can never know too much, it puts them upon the Apostle's Practice, Phil. 3.13. Brethren, I count not my self to have apprehended: but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind, & reach•• forth unto those things which are before, &c. their prayer is after him,