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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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4. HE doth good to a multitude. Goodness is diffusive a good Man contents not himself with drawing out his Goodness to one or two, but would do good to all as he hath opportunity and ability; Gal. 6.10. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men—. And truly all Creatures, as innumerable as they are, receive the largesses of God's Goodness; Psal. 145.15. The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season. For this reason he is compared to the Sun, (Psal. 84.11.) which imparts its light to the whole earth: and to a Fountain, (Jer. 2.17.) which sends forth its streams far and near.
5. HE is unwearied in it. A good Man is not tired out; his natural inclination maintains in him a readiness to be multiplying acts of Beneficence; such is God, like the Sun, which is never weary of travelling about the earth, but is as a giant in it, Psal. 19.4. Like a fountain which runs as full to day as it did yesterday, and bestows its streams with as much freedom.
6. HE delights in it. Connatural acts are pleasant: the Sun rejoiceth to run his race. Good Men are never better satisfied, than in imparting their Goodness: and God takes delight in being kind to his Creatures; Mic. 7.18