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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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Let us but read over all those Glorious Golden Letters, in which the Name of God is displayed, in his Word and Works, and lay by them the state of the Believer, lay all of his ••nts open, take the full account of all that can be thought of, requisite to his everlasting Beatitude, & we shall find that nothing is here wanting to answer it to the outside, and beyond that: Psal. 34.9, 10. O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. Psal. 84.11. For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will be withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psal. 63.5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips. See how God did display his Backparts to Moses, Exod. 34 6, 7. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord, God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, & transgression, & sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. And what cannot all this do for us? But this will be better seen in the sequel.
Let us but read over all those Glorious Golden Letters, in which the Name of God is displayed, in his Word and Works, and lay by them the state of the Believer, lay all of his ••nts open, take the full account of all that can be thought of, requisite to his everlasting Beatitude, & we shall find that nothing is here wanting to answer it to the outside, and beyond that: Psal. 34.9, 10. O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.