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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 18 (Question 4 cont.)
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USE 2. HENCE God is greatly to be praised for this Attribute by all his People: It is the Psalmists inference from his Observation, Psal. 145.3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. We should dwell upon the contemplation & acknowledgement of God's greatness. Great Princes use to have Panegyric Orations made in commendation of their greatness; who are but poor inconsiderable things to him: and so doth the Prophet of him, Isa. 40.15, 16, 17. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing, &c. One glosseth thus on the text, Were this great GOD sacrificed to proportionably, all the Beasts in Lebanon would not suffice for a burnt offering, nor all the Wood thereof for a fire to offer it on, nor all the Men in the world for a Priest! And it is good food for our faith to insist much in contemplation of God's infinite greatness, and our interest in it.
USE 2. HENCE God is greatly to be praised for this Attribute by all his People: It is the Psalmists inference from his Observation, Psal. 145.3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. We should dwell upon the contemplation & acknowledgment of God's greatness. Great Princes use to have Panegyrick Orations made in commendation of their greatness; who are but poor inconsiderable things to him: and so doth the Prophet of him, Isa. 40.15, 16, 17. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing, &c. One glosseth thus on the text, Were this great GOD sacrificed to proportionably, all the Beasts in Lebanon would not suffice for a burnt offering, nor all the Wood thereof for a fire to offer it on, nor all the Men in the world for a Priest! And it is good food for our faith to insist much in contemplation of God's infinite greatness, and our interest in it.