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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 28 (Question 4 cont.)
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USE 2. LEARN from the Description of God's Grace, that it is a Sovereign Thing; and consequently, neither have Any cause justly to complain of God if they miss it, nor to be proud if they obtain it: Deny the Freedom of it, and you deny it to be Grace. Here is […] any room to charge God with a sinister respecting of Persons, for that hath no […] in Gratuities: God may do with his own as he will: There is no Man deserves this Favour at his hands: If therefore he bestow it not, there is no room for complaining: They feel his Severity, but there is no Unrighteousness: If they miss Heaven and Glory, and meet with Everlasting Misery, […] but their Wages: and as for those that have it, it so comes to […], as to exclude all Boasting: It is Grace, and they did nothing to purchase it; nor had they ever had it, if they had not found Grace in the sight of God.
USE 2. LEARN from the Description of God's Grace, that it is a Sovereign Thing; and consequently, neither have Any cause justly to complain of God if they miss it, nor to be proud if they obtain it: Deny the Freedom of it, and you deny it to be Grace. Here is 〈…〉 any room to charge God with a sinister respecting of Persons, for that hath no 〈…〉 in Gratuities: God may do with his own as he will: There is no Man deserves this Favour at his hands: If therefore he bestow it not, there is no room for complaining: They feel his Severity, but there is no Unrighteousness: If they miss Heaven and Glory, and meet with Everlasting Misery, 〈…〉 but their Wages: and as for those that have it, it so comes to 〈…〉, as to exclude all Boasting: It is Grace, and they did nothing to purchase it; nor had they ever had it, if they had not found Grace in the sight of God.
USE • THE Doctrine of God's free Gr••• tells us, that the Chief of Sinners have no reason to Despair of Salvation. It is no little Glory which is brought to this Attribute, by the large Expressions that it makes of it self to the Children of Men: Grace therefore doth […] where more abound, than where Sin hath nally abounded: When therefore the ag vatted Considerations of Sin from the Greatness, Multitude, and ill Circumstances of them, and ready to bear our Spirits down into Discouragement, and make us afraid to hope; […] us entertain our selves with the Contemplation of the Grace of God, the Fullness and F ness of it: Remember that it is in God In and therefore cannot be outdone by us; […] that will show us, that the lowest Hell, that we apprehend our selves to be i, is a pl of Hope; and though we have nothing in […] selves to rely upon, there is still room for us to hope in his Grace.