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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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USE 1. LEARN hence, How much they rob God of his Glory, who ascribe their Salvation to Themselves, either in whole or in part. Needs must all such endeavour to obscure the Grace of God; and how injurious this is to his Honour, will be seen if we consider how dear this Attribute is to him, and what a costly as well as curious Contrivance he hath laid for the Exaltation of the Riches of it; all of which, Men that would be their own Saviours endeavour to darken: It derogates from the very Design of Salvation in a Gospel way; Rom. 9.23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. It puts Man into a better Condition than the Fall hath left him in; Rom. 5.6. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. It in part at least, arrogates to the Man himself some of the Acknowledgement of his Salvation: and so much as it gives to Man's free Will or Strength, so much it takes away from Grace: Needs then must God reject all such as thus seek and hope to be saved.
USE 1. LEARN hence, How much they rob God of his Glory, who ascribe their Salvation to Themselves, either in whole or in part. Needs must all such endeavour to obscure the Grace of God; and how injurious this is to his Honour, will be seen if we consider how dear this Attribute is to him, and what a costly as well as curious Contrivance he hath laid for the Exaltation of the Riches of it; all of which, Men that would be their own Saviours endeavour to darken: It derogates from the very Design of Salvation in a Gospel way; Rom. 9.23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory. It puts Man into a better Condition than the Fall hath left him in; Rom. 5.6. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. It in part at least, arrogates to the Man himself some of the Acknowledgment of his Salvation: and so much as it gives to Man's free Will or Strength, so much it takes away from Grace: Needs then must God reject all such as thus seek and hope to be saved.