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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 27 (Question 4 cont.)
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He might, as in Justice […] sometimes doth, make them eat their Bread by weight, and drink their Water by measure; but he doth not ordinarily do so, but they may out & drink their fill. 3. HE showers down so much Goodness upon Sinners, that their hearts or desires are filled with joy & gladness. They have even as much as they could wish for; Acts 14.17. Nevertheless, be bath not left himself without witness, in that be did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. (Psal. 145.11.) They have even what they will, all things at pleasure. God doth not cross them in their wills, nor diminish them, but every thing goes on prosperously and merrily with them; Job. 21.7, &c. Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? — That which the World declares to be Man's happiness, they have it; Psal. 144.12, &c. Yea, so as they can pronounce themselves blessed in their enjoyments and sing a Requiem to their Souls in the midst of it; (Luk. 12.19.) 4. THE Goodness of God doth superabound too […] them: They have not only enough and to spare, not only to the utmost of their desires, but beyond them; Psal. 73.7. — They have more than heart can wish. The word is, that which passeth the thought of their heart. Had they contrived to themselves a worldly condition, and set out in their thought what they would have, and what would give them most pleasure and delight, they could never have laid it out to so much advantage, and so little of encumbrance. They could not so much as in a dream have fancied for themselves such a plentiful supply of every good thing, and so much ease as they are possessed of. Their Cup is not only full, but it runs over, and they have so much that they cannot tell what to do with it, or how to make use of it; they surfeit upon earthly delights, and have a great deal; (Psal. 17.14.) and all this is of God's Benignity. [2.] GOD bestows all this Goodness upon Sinners freely […] the cost and charge which God is at, in holding up their Being, maintaining their Life, supplying them with all that necessity, convenience, or delight can possibly call for, and more than so, is all upon free cost. The Sinner pays him nothing for all this […] vok and […] rongs him, notwith stag […]. here […] service do so God, he is paying him o homage, makes him no returns;