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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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It was therefore incomparable Goodness that stood bound to do such great things for Man.
USE. WE may hence take notice bro• vile and •irrible a thing Men's Apostasy was; and how deeply the consideration of it ought to ban••e as all that had an hand in it. No affronts are more brutish and inhumane, than such as are offered to Goodness. The very Heathen could say, S•lagrat•m dixeris, omnia dixisti. Ingratitude is the most unreasonable thing; and indeed, there is not a more convincing and ashaming consideration to be put on any Sin, to make as blush and be even confounded at the thoughts of it than to reflect upon, and upbraid ourselves with the thought of the strong cords by which the Goodness of God hath bound us to him, all whereof must needs be snapped asunder by us, before we can adventure to Sin against him.
USE. WE may hence take notice bro• vile and •irrible a thing Men's Apostasy was; and how deeply the consideration of it ought to ban••e as all that had an hand in it. No affronts are more bruitish and inhumane, than such as are offered to Goodness. The very Heathen could say, S•lagrat•m dixeris, omnia dixisti. Ingratitude is the most unreasonable thing; and indeed, there is not a more convincing and ashaming consideration to be put on any Sin, to make as blush and be even confounded at the thoughts of it than to reflect upon, and upbraid ourselves with the thought of the strong cords by which the Goodness of God hath bound us to him, all whereof must needs be snapt asunder by us, before we can adventure to Sin against him.