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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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USE 2. THE consideration of God's common Goodness. may serve to convince the Sinner of his horrible Ingratitude to God, in that he returns him nothing for all his Mercy, but Sin. Do you thus requite the Lord, Oh foolish and unwise! Think, vile Sinner, where thou hadst been long eve this, had unmixed Justice taken place on thee, as soon as it had an advantage against thee; not where thou art; but in the bottomless Pit, there dwelling with Devils and damned Spirits, if Mercy had not stepped in, and stopped the Execution. And hath God instead of pouring out his Wrath upon you, exalted his Mercy towards you? Hath his Clemency spared, you? hath he born with Patience all your inj••cious dealings with him? and drawn out his forbearance unto long-suffering towards you, using all means to reclaim you? and not only kept you out of Hell, but strewed your paths with fatness, and filled your bellies with the hidden treasures of his Goodness; and do you still go on in your Sins, dishonouring & provoking God? ⟨p. 87⟩is this the pay you make him for all his Cost and Love to you? and can you still depend for more, and ask it at his hands? How brutish and unreasonable is this; the Ox and the Ass will rise up in Judgment against you one Day. Ask your own reason, would you nourish a Viper which would gnaw out your Bowels? Is not this consideration enough to put a stop to your Career in Sin, and make you ashamed of your ways and doings.
USE 2. THE consideration of God's common Goodness. may serve to convince the Sinner of his horrible Ingratitude to God, in that he returns him nothing for all his Mercy, but Sin. Do you thus requite the Lord, Oh foolish and unwise! Think, vile Sinner, where thou hadst been long eve this, had unmixed Justice taken place on thee, as soon as it had an advantage against thee; not where thou art; but in the bottomless Pit, there dwelling with Devils and damned Spirits, if Mercy had not stept in, and stopt the Execution. And hath God instead of pouring out his Wrath upon you, exalted his Mercy towards you? Hath his Clemency spared, you? hath he born with Patience all your inj••cious dealings with him? and drawn out his forbearance unto long-suffering towards you, using all means to reclaim you? and not only kept you out of Hell, but strewed your paths with satness, and filled your bellies with the hidden treasures of his Goodness; and do you still go on in your Sins, dishonouring & provoking God?