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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 19 (Question 4 cont.)
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USE 1. HERE we set what a vast disproportion there is between God and the Creature. Of him, and him only can it be said, From everlasting to everlasting then art God! He gave beginning to all things; himself alone is without beginning: The best of Men are but of Yesterday, and know not where they shall be to morrow, (Job 8.9.) all Creatures had an Original: all but some few shall have a dissolution: and how infinitely distant must he, who is the Father of Eternity, be from them that are the Children of Time?
USE 2. SEE here the reason why the Church of God stands in all Ages. It is because they have a God who is Eternal, who hath undertaken for them: This therefore is declared to be the happy Privilege of his People in Deut. 22 27. The eternal God is thy refuge—. For, because he is, therefore all his Perfections are Eternal, Isa. 59.1. their refuge therefore abides, and as long as their r••k lives, how can they be miserable? because their God can never cease to be, they can never want a refuge.
USE 2. SEE here the reason why the Church of God stands in all Ages. It is because they have a God who is Eternal, who hath undertaken for them: This therefore is declared to be the happy Priviledge of his People in Deut. 22 27. The eternal God is thy refuge—. For, because he is, therefore all his Perfections are Eternal, Isa. 59.1. their refuge therefore abides, and as long as their r••k lives, how can they be miserable? because their God can never cease to be, they can never want a refuge.