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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 17 (Question 4 cont.)
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USE 1. THIS tells us ho• suitable an Object God is for our Spirits to close withal. It is requisite for joy & delight, that the Object and Faculty be suitable one to the other, for without an adequate or suiting Object, there can be no satisfaction; but such is God; being a Spirit, although' infinitely above us, yet suitable for these Souls of ours to close withal. And herein the happiness of Believers above other men appears, because their Spirits have communion with this uncreated Spirit; his better part therefore is fully provided for, & there is no other man that enjoys this advantage. All other things are in Scripture, by way of opposition, called Flesh, and for that very reason are they incapable of affording Felicity to such as rely upon them; Isa. 31.3. Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit; when the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fall together. That is the reason why there can be no true confidence put in these things; but how beyond conception happy are they, whose Spirits are united with him, who is the Father of Spirits.
USE 1. THIS tells us ho• sutable an Object God is for our Spirits to close withal. It is requisite for joy & delight, that the Object and Faculty be sutable one to the other, for without an adequate or suting Object, there can be no satisfaction; but such is God; being a Spirit, altho' infinitely above us, yet sutab•e for these Souls of ours to close withal. And herein the happiness of Believers above other men appears, because their Spirits have communion with this uncreated Spirit; his better part therefore is fully provided for, & there is no other man that enjoys this advantage. All other things are in Scripture, by way of opposition, called Flesh, and for that very reason are they incapable of affording Felicity to such as rely upon them; Isa. 31.3. Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses flesh and not spirit; when the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fall together. That is the reason why there can be no true confidence put in these things; but how beyond conception happy are they, whose Spirits are united with him, who is the Father of Spirits.