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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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4. HE knows, for he keeps an exact register, of all the individual sins, secret and open, which they have committed. They are written in his Book, and laid up among his treasures; his eye follows them to all their vain Companies, lewd Practices, all that they do in the dark, stands in the light of his countenance; he counts all their vain thoughts, and idle words, and obscene actions, and how many thousand of these hath the Sinner been guilty of, and God hath forgotten none, and can set them all in order before him.
5. HE sees what entertainment Sinners give to all his Warnings & Counsels, which he sends to them. All that scorn and contempt which they offer unto them: all their secret uprisings of heart against them: all their secret uprisings of heart against them; all the resolves they make not to hear them; all the mocks and flouts at God, and Godliness; hears when they say as, Job 21.15. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Jer. 44.•6. As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
6. HE observes how all his Mercy & Patience, bardens them in Sin, and emboldens them to persist in it. Psal. 50.21. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thy self—. How they despise his Goodness and forbearance, and make those very things which should lead them to Repentance, their encouragements in impenitence, and so bring a world of vanity upon the Creature. And,