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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 25 (Question 4 cont.)
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[1.] IN general, we may observe,
1. THE Subject that participates in this Goodness, and that is the Creature, taken Indefinitely, and Universally. There is no second being, from the noblest Angel of Heaven, to the most despicable Worm in the earth, but partakes in the influence of this Attribute: the Scripture therefore is frequent in expressing the unbounded expressions of this Perfection; Psal. 145.9. The Lord is good to all.— And, 104th is spent in the discovery of it: and for this reason it is, that all beings are called upon to praise the Lord, Psal. 148.
1. THE Subject that participates in this Goodness, and that is the Creature, taken Indefinitely, and Universally. There is no second being, from the noblest Angel of Heaven, to the most despicable Worm in the earth, but partakes in the influence of this Attribute: the Script•re therefore is frequent in expressing the unbounded expressions of this Perfection; Psal. 145.9. The Lord is good to all.— And, 104th is spent in the discovery of it: and for this reason it is, that all beings are called upon to praise the Lord, Psal. 148.
2. THE matter of this Goodness comprehends all those favours which the Creatures do partake in. Whatsoever is a benefit to the Subject of it, comes under the notion of Goodness, because it doth it good: and inasmuch as whatsoever it is, or hath, comes from God, it must needs be a fruit and discovery of his Goodness unto it: they are therefore his Benefits that the Psalmist calls on himself to praise God for,