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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 19 (Question 4 cont.)
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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.
USE 3. LEARN hence how fearful a thing is must be for any to have this God for their Enemy. When the Apostle would set forth their woeful infelicity, he mentions him under the title of the living God, Heb 10.31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Living intends his Eternity When God himself speaks of taking Vengeance on Sinners, to make the threatening the more amazing. He puts them in mind of this Attribute. P•al. 32.40. For if he be eternal, then must their Plagues be endless. For as long as he and they abide, they must expect to have him for their Enemy. And this may well put Sinners into Consternation, and make them to say as