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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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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?
2. THAT your sinning against him hath been highly unreasonable. Thus Daniel convinced that Heathen Emperor, Dan. 5.23. — The God in whose h••d thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified. May not God well expostulate with you and say, I have done you good, and not hurt all your days: I have bestowed uncountable Favours upon you, ever since you had a Being; for which of all these is it that you thus dishonour me, hate me, and take up Arms of Rebellion against me? so he pleads with them; Jer. 2.5. Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers sound in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity and are become vain? And what rational Answer can you return to this demand?
2. THAT your sinning against him hath been highly unreasonable. Thus Daniel convinced that Heathen Emperour, Dan. 5.23. — The God in whose h••d thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified. May not God well expostulate with you and say, I have done you good, and not hurt all your days: I have bestowed uncountable Favours upon you, ever since you had a Being; for which of all these is it that you thus dishonour me, hate me, and take up Arms of Rebellion against me? so he pleads with them;