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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 29 (Question 4 cont.)
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1. IN those Predictions which he hath given of things before-hand, which in the Time appointed were to come to pass. The Scripture abounds with such as these; some referring to personal, others to more public Affairs: some in respect of his Church, others relating to the Enemies of his Church; some that have been already accomplished, others, that are as yet to be expected, the Time not being come for the fulfilling of them.
1. IN those Predictions which he hath given of things before-hand, which in the Time appointed were to come to pass. The Scripture abounds with such as these; some referring to personal, others to more publick Affairs: some in respect of his Church, others relating to the Enemies of his Church; some that have been already accomplished, others, that are as yet to be expected, the Time not being come for the fulfilling of them.
2. IN the Revelation of the Rule of Man's Happiness. He hath shown to Man the Way: He made known to Man at first, the things wherein his Felicity did consist, and how he might be blessed forever; and he hath also discovered to fallen Man the Way and Means of his Recovery out of Misery, and obtaining Salvation by Jesus Christ: and this is called the Will of God in Scripture, because he did forever purpose within himself that there should be a Connection between these things: Hence we have that assertion of Paul, Acts 20.27. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
2. IN the Revelation of the Rule of Man's Happiness. He hath shewn to Man the Way: He made known to Man at first, the things wherein his Felicity did consist, and how he might be blessed forever; and he hath also discovered to fallen Man the Way and Means of his Recovery out of Misery, and obtaining Salvation by Jesus Christ: and this is called the Will of God in Scripture, because he did forever purpose within himself that there should be a Connexion between these things: Hence we have that assertion of Paul,