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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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USE 1. LEARN hence what a glorious Portion every believer is possessed of. Every Godly man may say as David, Psal. 16.5. The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. And as the Church, Lam. 3.24. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him. And if so, well might Paul say, He had learnt to be self-sufficient, Phil. 4.11. Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. For he had taken possession of the All-sufficient God, and God's Self-sufficiency was become his: he had no want, because he knew where to have all made up, was in no fear of danger, because he had a secure shelter against all. And this is the common interest of all Believers. God hath said to every one of them, I am thine. God's Children may live Royally, because they can never be impoverished. ⟨p. 49⟩Here is Grace, and Glory, and every good; and it is their own fault, if they be scanted in any thing.
USE 1. LEARN hence what a glorious Portion every believer is possessed of. Every Godly man may say as David, Psal. 16.5. The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. And as the Church, Lam. 3.24. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him. And if so, well might Paul say, He had learnt to be self-sufficient, Phil. 4.11. Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. For he had taken possession of the Alsufficient God, and God's Self-sufficiency was become his: he had no want, because he knew where to have all made up, was in no fear of danger, because he had a secure shelter against all. And this is the common interest of all Believers. God hath said to every one of them, I am thine. God's Children may live Royally, because they can never be impoverished.