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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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5. HE continues this dispensation some while. He threatens not once or twice, but many times. He sends one Prophet after another; 2 Chron. 36.16. But they marked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arise against his people tilt there was no remedy. Waiting to see if they thus may be persuaded, if some warning or other will not fasten, and awaken them to bethink themselves, and repent.
5. HE continues this dispensation some while. He threatons not once or twice, but many times. He sends one Prophet after another; 2 Chron. 36.16. But they marked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arise against his people tilt there was no remedy. Waiting to see if they thus may be perswaded, if some warning or other will not fasten, and awaken them to bethink themselves, and repent.
6. WHEN he begins to execute, he doth it gradually, and not all at once; but by steps, first by lighter plagues, and after that by heavier: tries first what rods will do, to see if they will prevent scorpions, Psal. 78.38. And ⟨p. 84⟩he hath many steps in the way, before he comes to the top, Lev. 26.27, 28. And if ye t••ll not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me: Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.