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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 24 (Question 4 cont.)
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USE 1. LEARN hence that there is no hope for a Sinner that is in ••s Sins to esease the wrath of God, and vengeance of Hell. A vain thing it is to plead the mercy of God, and think to shroud your selves under that, whilst there is guilt lying upon you: Remember, that when God displayed all his Goodness before Moses, that he took care to put in a caution against such as you. Exod. 34.7, 8. Keeping mercy for thous•••s, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that will by no means that the guilty; ••••ing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. And Moses made bas••, and bowed his bead reward the earth, and worshipped. Think, God is just as well as merciful, and this Attribute is equally Infinite, Eternal and Unchangeable with that; whatever love vain Men may plead that God hath for his Creatures which are the works of his hands; yet know it, he hath an Infinite self-love, which is his Holiness, which engageth him to secure the interest of the declarative glory of all his Perfections; and he will not suffer any one of them to have the least stain or blemish upon it: if therefore you cannot reconcile the Immaculate Justice of God to your hopes of Salvation, you have little ground of encouragement or comfort: that there is a way to do this, is of God's rich Grace; and if ever you would stand in the judgment before a righteous God, it infinitely concerns you to seek after and secure this title, else all your hopes will perish forever.
USE 1. LEARN hence that there is no hope for a Sinner that is in ••s Sins to esease the wrath of God, and vengean•e of Hell. A vain thing it is to plead the mercy of God, and think to shroud your selves under that, whilst there is guilt lying upon you: Remember, that when God displayed all his Goodness before Moses, that he took care to put in a caution against such as you. Exod. 34.7, 8. Keeping mercy for thous•••s, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that will by no means that the guilty; ing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the childrens children, unto the third and to the sourth generation. And Moses made bas, and bewed his bead reward the earth, and worshipped. Think, God is just as well as mercifull, and this Attribute is equally Infinite, Eternal and Unchangable with that; whatever love vain Men may plead that God hath for his Creatures which are the works of his hands; yet know it, he hath an Infinite self-love, which is his Holiness, which engageth him to secure the interest of the declarative glory of all his Perfections; and he will not suffer any one of them to have the least stain or blemish upon it: if therefore you cannot reconcile the Immaculate Justice of God to your hopes of Salvation, you have little ground of encouragement or comfort: that there is a way to do this, is of God's rich Grace; and if ever you would stand in the judgment before a righteous God, it infinitely concerns you to seek after and secure this title, else all your hopes will perish forever.