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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. DECEITFULNESS, or a lying Disposition: Many speak with a Purpose to deceive others, and to impose things that are not true, upon their Credit; and there is a root of this perverse Disposition in all Men by Nature: But there is no such thing with God: Hence the Opposition in, Rom. 3.4. — Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. And this in Man proceeds from the Wickedness of his Heart; But God is Holy, and therefore it is said to be Impossible to him; Heb. 6.18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie—. When therefore God is said to Deceive the Prophet, Ezek. 14.9. it doth not intend that God revealed a Falsehood to him; but it respects his Providence, suffering him to deceive himself by false Conjectures, and disappointing his confident Expectations, which he had in second Causes: All that God saith is very True, and Faithful.
2. DECEITFULNESS, or a lying Disposition: Many speak with a Purpose to deceive others, and to impose things that are not true, upon their Credit; and there is a root of this perverse Disposition in all Men by Nature: But there is no such thing with God: Hence the Opposition in, Rom. 3.4. — Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. And this in Man proceeds from the Wickedness of his Heart; But God is Holy, and therefore it is said to be Impossible to him; Heb. 6.18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie—. When therefore God is said to Deceive the Prophet, Ezek. 14.9. it doth not intend that God revealed a Falshood to him; but it respects his Providence, suffering him to deceive himself by false Conjectures, and disappointing his confident Expectations, which he had in second Causes: All that God saith is very True, and Faithfull.