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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 3. LET this Consideration of God's common Goodness or Mercy, invite and encourage Sinners to Repentance. This is the rational tendency of it, and the thing which God looks that it should work in the hearts of Sinners; Rom. 2.4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? • Pet. 3.9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, (as some men count slackness) but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And the thing it self speaks a great deal of quickening and encouragement. It speaks aloud.
USE 3. LET this Consideration of God's common Goodness or Mercy, invite and encourage Sinners to Repentance. This is the rational tendency of it, and the thing which God looks that it should work in the hearts of Sinners; Rom. 2.4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? • Pet. 3.9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, (as some men count slackness) but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And the thing it self speaks a great deal of quickning and encouragement. It speaks aloud.
1 THAT God deserves all the service of the Sinner. He that gives you your lives for a prey, that keeps you out of the Pit, that sustains and maintains you with such liberality; if he be not loved and served by you, who should? certainly, these are the Cords of a Man, and would bind you in affection to another, and why not to God? is God to be despised for that which you would think Men can be never enough acknowledged for?