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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 3. HENCE we ought to be very fearful of committing secret Sins. The Infinite God is Omnipresent. When a Heathen Philosopher asked of a Christian, Where is your God? His Answer was, Let me first understand from you where he is not. He is not only by his Power and Providence, but also by his Power and Providence, but also by his Essence Omnipresent. It must therefore be a secret principle of Atheism in men, that makes them dare to commit that in secret, which they dare not do openly. Heathen have cautioned against it, because Conscience stands by; but here is that which may serve to put a greater awe upon our hearts, 1 Joh. 3.20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. If Conscience be as much as a thousand Witnesses, God is more than ten thousand Consciences: and God warns us against thinking him afar off, Jer. 23.23, 24. Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord: do not I fill heaven & earth? saith the Lord. Let every place we are in be a Bethel to us: think, God is in this place of a very truth! And let that make us very wary to our selves, what we think, speak, or do, it all stands in the light of his Countenance, and he can bring it into open light, and lay it forth before the Sun.
USE 3. HENCE we ought to be very fearfull of committing secret Sins. The Infinite God is Omnipresent. When a Heathen Philosopher asked of a Christian, Where is your God? His Answer was, Let me first understand from you where he is not. He is not only by his Power and Providence, but also by his Power and Providence, but also by his Essence Omnipresent. It must therefore be a secret principle of Atheism in men, that makes them dare to commit that in secret, which they dare not do openly. Heathen have cautioned against it, because Conscience stands by; but here is that which may serve to put a greater awe upon our hearts, 1 Joh. 3.20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. If Conscience be as much as a thousand Witnesses, God is more than ten thousand Consciences: and God warns us against thinking him afar off, Jer. 23.23, 24