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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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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.
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 tho'ts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, tho'ts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expelled end.
4. IN the Denunciation of his Threatenings: There are fearful Menaces uttered in the Scriptures against these and those who are God's Enemies, and Haters of Him; whereby Men are fully acquainted what he would have them ••pect ⟨p. 92⟩•t his Hands; which are the making known of those Judgments that he had purposed, and prepared in his Decree concerning such; Isa. […] For T•phe• is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared, he hath made it deep & large: the pile thereof is re and […] od, the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kint […].