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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 28 (Question 4 cont.)
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[1.] THE Riches of this Grace appear in the Great Things which it doth for the Subject. A free Favour is enhanced by the Magnificence of it. It must be Heroic Grace which doth such wondrous things for Men. We may dilate on this by Meditating on all that is done in the work of Restitution, both in Redemption and Application, to which the Doctrine of this Attribute properly refers. Here only take a Specimen in these two particulars which compriseth much.
[1.] THE Riches of this Grace appear in the Great Things which it doth for the Subject. A free Favour is enhaunced by the Magnificence of it. It must be Heroick Grace which doth such wonderous things for Men. We may dilate on this by Meditating on all that is done in the work of Restitution, both in Redemption and Application, to which the Doctrine of this Attribute properly refers. Here only take a Specimen in these two particulars which comprizeth much.
1. THE great Evils which it restores or delivers them from. When Grace comes to apply it self to them, it finds them as miserable as Sin and the Curse of the Law could make them: Innumerable great and destroying Evils are upon them; Hell was open ready to receive them, and the Wrath of God was ready to fall in fury upon them, his Hand was up, and the fatal blow ready to be struck; they were just falling over into an Ocean of unquenchable Fire; and Grace stepped in and said, Deliver them, I have found a Ransom. Paul tells his Ephesians what they were when Grace came to them, Eph. 2.3, 4. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times pass, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. B•• God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us.
1. THE great Evils which it restores or delivers them from. When Grace comes to apply it self to them, it finds them as miserable as Sin and the Curse of the Law could make them: Innumerable great and destroying Evils are upon them; Hell was open ready to receive them, and the Wrath of God was ready to fall in fury upon them, his Hand was up, and the fatal blow ready to be struck; they were just falling over into an Ocean of unquenchable Fire; and Grace stept in and said, Deliver them, I have found a Ransom. Paul tells his Ephesians what they were when Grace came to them,