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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 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 Isa. 33.14. — Who among us shall dwell with everlasting be•rnings? And let this be a loud and awakening call to such as are in their natural state, to make hast to get their Peace made with this God, left you fall under the Impressions of his Wrath, which when once it is kindled into a fire against you, will never go out again, but being blown up by the breath of an Everlasting God, will burn without end; beware of falling into his hands, except you would have eternal Misery to be your portion.
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 woful 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 threatning 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 Isa. 33.14. — Who among us shall dwell with everlasting be•rnings? And let this be a loud and awakening call to such as are in their natural state, to make hast to get their Peace made with this God, left you fall under the Impressions of his Wrath, which when once it is kindled into a fire against you, will never go out again, but being blown up by the breath of an Everlasting God, will burn without end; beware of falling into his hands, except you would have eternal Misery to be your portion.