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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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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, Acts 20.27. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
3. IN the Promulgation of the Promises. The word of God is full of precious Promises, in which God obliged himself, and past his Word to his People, that he will bestow these and those Favours and Blessings upon them; and they do contain in them Matter of universal Consolation: These also are the Manifestations of his Decrees, and give us to understand what Thoughts he entertained in his Heart from Eternity concerning his People; Jer. 29 11. For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expelled end.