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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 hath more than enough for them; […] give them, not only what will satisfy, but what is abundant. He hath so much overflowing goodness; that their shallow & narrow vessels are not able to contain it all. His affluence is superfluity: it goes beyond, not only their occasions, but their hopes, desires, and thoughts. Eph. 3.20. He is able to do exceedingly above all that we ask or think. There is in him an Infinite Redundancy. There is more for his People than they can improve; Psal. 36.8. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house: and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. It is true; we stand in need of a Deity, as we are Reasonable Creatures: no created thing can satisfy the reachings of men's will. And as Sinners and Debtors, we stand in need of a Trinity, to bring us again into God's favour: but there is more in the fullness of the Godhead, and these Divine Persons, than ever we are able to hold.
2. HE hath more than enough for them; 〈…〉 give them, not only what will satisfy, but what is abundant. He hath so much overflowing goodness; that their shallow & narrow vessels are not able to contain it all. His affluence is superfluity: it goes beyond, not only their occasions, but their hopes, desires, and thoughts. Eph. 3.20. He is able to do exceedingly above all that we ask or think. There is in him an Infinite Redundancy. There is more for his People than they can improve; Psal. 36.8. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house: and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. It is true; we stand in need of a Deity, as we are Reasonable Creatures: no created thing can satisfy the reachings of men's will. And as Sinners and Debtors, we stand in need of a Trinity, to bring us again into God's favour: but there is more in the fulness of the Godhead, and these Divine Persons, than ever we are able to hold.