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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 26 (Question 4 cont.)
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THAT there is such an Attribute in God, the Scripture is full for; that it is common to sinful Men will appear, if you compare, Matth. 3.3•, 25, 26. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, […] that curse you, do […] them that bate you & pray for […] wi••• despitefully use you, ex•persecute you: […] ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for be maketh his s•n is rise on the evil & in the good, and sendeth rain on the just & on the unjust. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect with, Luk. 6.35.36. But have your enemies, and do good, and lend, b••ing for nothing again: and your reward shell be great, and ye stall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful, and is the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
THAT there is such an Attribute in God, the Scripture is full for; that it is common to sinful Men will appear, if you compare, Matth. 3.3•, 25, 26. But I say unto you, Love your exemus, 〈…〉 that curse you, do 〈…〉 them that bate you & pray for 〈…〉 wi••• despitefully use you, ex•persecute you: 〈…〉 ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for be maketh his s•n is rise on the evil & in the good, and sendeth rain on the just & on the unjust. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect with, Luk. 6.35.36. But have your enemies, and do good, and lend, b••ing for nothing again: and your reward shell be great, and ye stall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful, and is the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.