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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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Man had no sooner finned, but he knew what it was to be undone, and now he stands in need of Mercy: this is that which Mercy looks upon with a commiserating eye; Judg. 10.16.—His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 3. THAT wherein this Attribute exerts it self is, it succours them in this Misery. We conceive it as a Divine Virtue in God, to be an inclination & readiness thus to do; this we discern by the effect when we see that he so doth: all the relief that he affords them in this forlorn estate of theirs, belongs to his Mercy. Would we then take a scantling of this Mercy of God, we must lay those two things together, viz. What belongs to their Misery, and what abatements of it they enjoy: to the former belongs the consideration of what was their due demerit by the Rule of Justice; to the latter the observation of the degrees to which it is at present restrained or moderated in the execution: would we throughly understand the former, we must unbowel the Curse, and that will give us an admirable discovery of the latter, by laying it by the Providence under which they are; and this leads us to Enquire,
Man had no sooner finned, but he knew what it was to be undone, and now he stands in need of Mercy: this is that which Mercy looks upon with a commiserating eye; Judg. 10.16.—His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 3. THAT wherein this Attribute exerts it self is, it succours them in this Misery. We conceive it as a Divine Vertue in God, to be an inclination & readiness thus to do; this we discern by the effect when we see that he so doth: all the relief that he affords them in this forlorn estate of theirs, belongs to his Mercy. Would we then take a scantling of this Mercy of God, we must lay those two things together, viz. What belongs to their Misery, and what abatements of it they enjoy: to the former belongs the consideration of what was their due demerit by the Rule of Justice; to the latter the observation of the degrees to which it is at present restrained or moderated in the execution: would we throughly understand the former, we must unbowel the Curse, and that will give us an admirable discovery of the latter, by laying it by the Providence under which they are; and this leads us to Enquire,