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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 21 (Question 4 cont.)
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And needs must he be a wise Piles, that can fleer steadily in such a St••••. 5. IN the happy contr••••• of Man's Redemptions. In this Paul tells us the manife•• Wisdom of God is known, Eth. 1.10. Divine Wisdom, as well as Power was requisite to be exerted in the breaking the head plot of the Devil, who bad subtly contrived the ruin of Man, by bringing him under a sentence of Death, in which the Justice of God, and his Holinesston, were deeply concerned & engaged; to find out, and bring about a way, wherein Sin might be punished, and the Sinner pardoned; Juice might triumph, and yet Mercy be exalted; God's Holiness appear in his not enduring Sin, and his Grace shine forth in his unexpressible love to the Sinner: this is called a great Mystery, and Angels themselves are Students in it; and so great is the depth of Wisdom that is herein contained, that CHRIST, who is the Subject in whom it centres, is for this reason entitled by the name of Wonderful, Isa. 9.6.
And needs must he be a wise Piles, that can fleer steadily in such a St••••. 5. IN the happy contr••••• of Man's Redemptions. In this Paul tells us the manife•• Wisdom of God is known, Eth. 1.10. Divine Wisdom, as well as Power was requisite to be exerted in the breaking the head plot of the Devil, who bad s•subtily contrived the ruin of Man, by bringing him under a sentence of Death, in which the Justice of God, and his Holinesston, were deeply concerned & engaged; to find out, and bring about a way, wherein Sin might be punished, and the Sinner pardoned; Ju•ice might triumph, and yet Mercy be exalted; God's Haliness appear in his not enduring Sin, and his Grace shine forth in his unexpressible love to the Sinner: this is called a great Mydery, and Angels themselves are Students in it; and so great is the depth of Wisdom that is herein contained, that CHRIST, who is the Subject in whom it conters, is for this reason entituled by the name of Wonderfull, Isa. 9.6.