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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. HENCE they make a bad choice, who leave God, and take up with any other things. There are two Evils contained in it, and they are very great ones. Jer. 2.13. For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and •ewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. They embrace lying vanities, and forsake their own mercies: they choose emptiness, and reject fullness it self: and no wonder, if they never arrive at satisfaction. And yet such fools are all they, who will not part with their Sins, for a Saviour; that say to God, Depart from us; and tell him, They desire not the knowledge of his ways; that have the world set in their hearts; that prefer the light of their own fire, before the light of God's countenance: — These have that doom read unto them, Isai. 50 11. This shall ye have of mine hand, ye shall be down in sorrow.
2. HENCE they make a bad choice, who leave God, and take up with any other things. There are two Evils contained in it, and they are very great ones. Jer. 2.13. For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and •ewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. They imbrace lying vanities, and forsake their own mercies: they chuse emptiness, and reject fulness it self: and no wonder, if they never arrive at satisfaction. And yet such fools are all they, who will not part with their Sins, for a Saviour; that say to God, Depart from us; and tell him, They desire not the knowledge of his ways; that have the world set in their hearts; that prefer the light of their own fire, before the light of God's countenance: — These have that doom read unto them, Isai. 50 11. This shall ye have of mine hand, ye shall be down in sorrow.