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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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3. HE doth the Creature good, tho' he hath provoked him to the contrary. A good Man will requite good for evil to a very enemy: if he, hunger he will seed him, &c. He will if possible, break his heart with kindness; and herein is God's Goodness highly celebrated, Matth. 5.45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in •••co•, for be maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. (Rom. 5.8.) He not only requites the Creatures Service with benignity, but lays obligations upon them, whilst dishonouring him, to repent and return to their Obedience; Rom. 2.4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
3. HE doth the Creature good, tho' he hath provoked him to the contrary. A good Man will requite good for evil to a very enemy: if he, hunger he will seed him, &c. He will if possible, break his heart with kindness; and herein is God's Goodness highly celebrated, Matth. 5.45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in •••co•, for be maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. (Rom. 5.8.) He not only requites the Creatures Service with benignity, but lays obligations upon them, whilst dishonouring him, to repent and return to their Obedience; Rom. 2.4. Or desp•sest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?