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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 20 (Question 4 cont.)
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USE 2. HENCE it must needs be a fearful thing to fall under the wrath of this God. This Attribute speaks sadly to all those, that neglecting to improve the day of his Grace, do pull upon themselves the day of his Vengeance. God hath declared to us in his word, that he will certainly destroy all such as accept not of his offered grace in the day of it; and woe to them that run the adventure of this hazard. God adds the consideration of this Attribute, as well to confirm his Menaces as his Promises, 1 Sam. 15.29. God hath resolved that all such shall perish, and he will never be of another mind; prayers, tears, supplications, intercessions, will not profit, or move him at all, who is inexorable: The plagues therefore of impenitent Sinners must needs be Everlasting.
USE 2. HENCE it must needs be a fearfull thing to fall under the wrath of this God. This Attribute speaks sadly to all those, that neglecting to improve the day of his Grace, do pull upon themselves the day of his Vengeance. God hath declared to us in his word, that he will certainly destroy all such as accept not of his offered grace in the day of it; and wo to them that run the adventure of this hazard. God adds the consideration of this Attribute, as well to confirm his Menaces as his Promises, 1 Sam. 15.29. God hath resolved that all such shall perish, and he will never be of another mind; prayers, tears, supplications, intercessions, will not profit, or move him at all, who is inexorable: The plagues therefore of impenitent Sinners must needs be Everlasting.
USE 3. WE here see the ground of the Saints Perseverance; or the Reason why God's People can never fall from Grace, or lose the title to Glory bestowed on them in the New-Covenant: It is because the Unchangeable God hath undertaken for them, and stands engaged to them: His Unchangeable love is set upon them; his Unchangeable word is past unto them: his sure & steadfast Covenant is plighted with them. They are Creatures, and so mutable, their grace in it self might cease, their resolutions alter; but his Immutable Assistance can never fail. He hath said, he will never leave nor forsake them: there might be reason enough' in them for him so to do; but there is this reason grounded in his Nature, which forbids him; He hath sworn in truth, and he cannot go from it, (