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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 15 (Question 4 cont.)
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(2.) HE is a Sun. As the rising Sun, with its light, drives away the darkness, imparts heat, and vivifies the world; and, with its sweet beams, cherisheth man & beast; so are God's People recreated, cherished, and refreshed with the serene face of God: And what can they need more? He is a shield, because he can deliver them from all evil. From the evils of this life: Psal. 91.9. Because thou hast made the Lord which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation: There shall no evil befall thee, &c. From the miseries of the second death; Rev. 2.11. He that overcometh, shall not be hurt of the second death. Yea, from the Fear of all evil; Isai. 41.10, 13, 14. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee. Fear not, thou wor•• Jacob, and ye men of Israel: I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the holy One of Israel. Nay, from the possibility of evils approaching them: Psal. 91.10. Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. He is a Sun, because he can bestow all kinds of good upon them, can supply all their wants; Phil. 4.19. My God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus. Fill all their desires; Psal. 81.10. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. Fully satisfy their Souls; Psal. 63.5. They are not in trouble as other men: neither are they plagued like other men. And is not this enough?