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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 4. THIS also should encourage secret duties. They cannot be lost, the Infinite God being every where present, he stands by you when you pray in secret, hears every groan, registers every sigh, bottles every tear: never fear being so private & retired as to be sequestered from him: did we more credit, or more think of this Attribute of God, It would make us more active & cheerful, in most close and retired Services of God, and out of doubt this would be a blessed way wonderfully to promote intimate Communion between him and us.
USE 4. THIS also should encourage secret duties. They cannot be lost, the Infinite God being every where present, he stands by you when you pray in secret, hears every groan, registers every sigh, bottles every tear: never fear being so private & retired as to be sequest•ed from him: did we more credit, or more think of this Attribute of God, It would make us more active & cheerfull, in most close and retired Services of God, and out of doubt this would be a blessed way wonderfully to promote intimate Communion between him and us.
USE 5. HENCE their misery must needs be great, who have this God for their Enemy. As the man is, so is his strength; to have the Infinite and Omnipresent God engaged against a man for his ruin, is an infelicity that cannot be computed: as Infinite Mercy is the portion of those that love him; so Infinite Wrath must fall upon all those that hate him And this should be a loud and awakening call to all, and you young ones in particular, to make haste, and get as far as you can out of this danger, by seeking an Interest in Christ, and shrouding your selves under his shadow: till when, you lie open every moment to this woeful hazard, being by nature Children of wrath. Think then solemnly and frequently, what it is to fall into the hands of the Infinite GOD, Infinite in presence, and Infinite in power, and I finite in revenging Justice; and can the danger you go in be less than Infinite?
USE 5. HENCE their misery must needs be great, who have this God for their Enemy. As the man is, so is his strength; to have the Infinite and Omnipresent God engaged against a man for his ruin, is an infelicity that cannot be computed: as Infinite Mercy is the portion of those that love him; so Infinite Wrath must fall upon all those that hate him And this should be a loud and awakening call to all, and you young ones in particular, to make haste, and get as far as you can out of this danger, by seeking an Interest in Christ, and shrouding your selves under his shadow: till when, you ly open every moment to this wofull hazard, being by nature Children of wrath. Think then solemnly and frequently, what it is to fall into the hands of the Infinite GOD, Infinite in presence, and Infinite in power, and I finite in revenging Justice; and can the danger you go in be less than Infinite?