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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 29 (Question 4 cont.)
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(6.) THAT God hath not so much as the […] Inclination in him to vary from his Word. The Psalmist speaks of Truth in the inward parts. Men may perform their Obligations, because they cannot with Honour or Safety omit so doing when yet they have many Reluctances and Strivings in them, inclining them so to do, if they could; which is a secret Evidence that there is a great deal of Falseness in their Hearts: But with God there is no such thing: He never so much as entertains o• Thought in him to do otherwise: He doth not […] his Word merely because he hath Given it, but he gave it because he resolved to fulfil it; and it pleaseth him always; he takes a Delight and is fully satisfied in it: As he cannot, so he will not Repent: His Heart is in all he doth. When therefore the Scripture faith, He doth not do a thing willingly, as L••. 3.33. it is spoken after the Manner of Men, and only intends that he doth it not without just Cause, and sufficient Reasons moving him thereto. And in these things doth the Truth of God shine out to us:
(6.) THAT God hath not so much as the 〈…〉 Inclination in him to vary from his Word. The Psalmist speaks of Truth in the inward parts. Men may perform their Obligations, because they cannot with Honour or Safety omit so doing when yet they have many Reluctances and Strivings in them, inclining them so to do, if they could; which is a secret Evidence that there is a great deal of Falseness in their Hearts: But with God there is no such thing: He never so much as entertains o• Thought in him to do otherwise: He doth not 〈…〉 his Word meerly because he hath Given it, but he gave it because he resolved to fulfill it; and it pleaseth him always; he takes a Delight and is fully satisfied in it: As he cannot, so he will not Repent: His Heart is in all he doth. When therefore the Scripture faith, He doth not do a thing willingly, as L••. 3.33. it is spoken after the Manner of Men, and only intends that he doth it not without just Cause, and sufficient Reasons moving him thereto. And in these things doth the Truth of God shine out to us: