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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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(1.) THE Patience of God, is God willing for the present to bear those injuries that are offered him by Sinners. Whilst the wretched Creature is offering all affronts and abuses to his sacred Majesty, God keeps silence, Psal. 50.21. He bears with all these indignities quietly. He is not put into a chase by them, as we are wont to be, when we think our selves to be affronted; he is calm and composed under all. Sin is contrary to the holy nature of God, and therefore he might justly break forth in fury, upon the least Sin committed, clothe himself with indignation, and show no pity; but Patience moderates his Anger, so that he withholds the deserved punishment, and for this reason it is that the Sinner dies not upon the spot: and this very Patience is a glorious Attribute, and will appear to be wonderful, if we lay it by the consideration of the lives and conversations of Sinners, their daily carriages towards him; and remember, that God looks on, and sees all this, and that they are not cut off and destroyed: let us then a little commorate here, and observe how admirably Patient God is.
(1.) THE Patience of God, is God willing for the present to bear those injuries that are offered him by Sinners. Whilst the wretched Creature is offering all affronts and abuses to his sacred Majesty, God keeps silence, Psal. 50.21. He bears with all these indignities quietly. He is not put into a chase by them, as we are wont to be, when we think our selves to be affronted; he is calm and composed under all. Sin is contrary to the holy nature of God, and therefore he might j•stly break forth in fury, upon the least Sin committed, cloath himself with indignation, and shew no pity; but Patience moderates his Anger, so that he witholds the deserved punishment, and for this reason it is that the Sinner dies not upon the spot: and this very Patience is a glorious Attribute, and will appear to be wonderfull, if we lay it by the consideration of the lives and conversations of Sinners, their daily carriages towards him; and remember, that God looks on, and sees all this, and that they are not cut off and destroyed: let us then a little commorate here, and observe how admirably Patient God is.