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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 22 (Question 4 cont.)
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USE 1. LEARN hence how vain a thing […] is for any to go about to resist God. There is no opposing of Omnipotency, no striving against him who is Almighty: tho' every sinner doth so in every sin; Job. 15.25, 26. For be shet•b••• out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of her bucklers. Know it, every time you dare to commit any Sin, you bid a challenge to God to come and fight against you if he dare; and do you know whom it is you set your selves in battle array against? Shall briars and thorns arm themselves against a consuming fire? Shall a Worm rouse it self up against a Lion? Every time you are tempted to sin, ask your selves that Question, 1 Cor. 10.22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? You must doubtless have the worst of it, Job. 9.4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Ask the damned in Hell, who once were Rebels as you are, and they will tell you, that they are ruined & damned, heaps upon heaps, to be Eternal witnesses, that there is no withstanding him.
USE 1. LEARN hence how vain a thing 〈…〉 is for any to go about to resist God. There is no opposing of Omnipotency, no striving against him who is Almighty: tho' every sinner doth so in every sin; Job. 15.25, 26. For be shet•b••• out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick besses of her bucklers. Know it, every time you dare to commit any Sin, you bid a challenge to God to come and fight against you if he dare; and do you know whom it is you set your selves in battle array against? Shall briars and thorns arm themselves against a consuming fire? Shall a Worm rouse it self up against a Lion? Every time you are tempted to sin, ask your selves that Question,