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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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2. HE is ready to do for them before he […] asked. A good Man by virtue of his inclination, ⟨p. 79⟩cannot tarry till he be solicited; but he looks out to see for some Objects of his bounty, enquires who stands in need of his favour; and it is certain, that God prevents his Creature, and bestows innumerable kindnesses upon it unsought; Isa, 65.1. I am found of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that fought me not —. One would think it enough to do for them when they pray; but see, Isa. 65.24. And it shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer, and whiles they are yet spanking, I will bear. The Psalmist did but purpose, Psal. 32.5. —I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
2. HE is ready to do for th•m •efore he 〈…〉 asked. A good Man by vertue of his inclination, ⟨p. 79⟩cannot tarry till he be sollicited; but he looks out to see for some Objects of his bounty, enquires who stands in need of his favour; and it is certain, that God prevents his Creature, and bestows innumerable kindnesses upon it unsought; Isa, 65.1. I am found of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that fought me not —. One would think it enough to do for them when they pray; but see, Isa. 65.24. And it shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer, and whiles they are yet spanking, I will bear. The Psalmist did but purpose, Psal. 32.5. —I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.