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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 14 (Question 4 cont.)
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2. WE need to know no more of God, that we may Live. There is happiness enough for a Creature comprised in this discovery. Here is that which is sufficient to fill up and satisfy the most extended desires, and make the man Blessed forever. To see and enjoy God in his Backparts, is enough to bound the vastest reachings of Men or Angels. For, 1. THESE are all that is revealed of God. This is as much as his Infinite Wisdom judgeth meet to discover to the Creature: hence it is all that we have to seek or enquire after. Deut. 29.29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed, belong unto us, and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Out of doubt, God hath manifested himself sufficiently for the blessedness of his people, whom he hath his heart upon, and whom he intends to make Blessed in communion with, and fruition of himself. Moses was a blessed man, and yet he might see no more. And our Saviour declares this knowledge to be life eternal, (Joh. 17.3.) and what can we need more for ourselves than Life eternal! He that hath that, is sufficiently laid in, and may triumph. 2. THESE are the portion of God's Children. Jehovah, i. e. God in his Backparts, is the Believers Inheritance. Lam. 3.24. The Lord is my Portion. God in His Face cannot be seen; and therefore not inherited or possessed: for what fruition can we have of that which we know not? But God hath given or made over to every Believer an happifying Portion. It is his interest in this God, thus discovered, that David makes that boast of, Psal. 16.5, &c. The Lord is the portion of mine Inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. I will bless the Lord, &c. If there were any thing wanting to full felicity in the Saints Portion, God were not so good as his Word. When he had called Abraham to forsake all for him, he gives him that encouragement, Gen. 17.1, 7. I am the Almighty God; — I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, to be a God unto thee. 3. IN these Backparts is contained all that we can stand in need of.