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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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USE 1. LEARN hence, How safe it is to be under the Promises, and how dangerous to be under the Threatenings of God. The Word of God is full of great and precious Promises, which contain in them complete and perfect Happiness; and here lies the Safety of the Children and Heirs of the Promise, that when once they come to be under them, and have ••••en God engaged to them, they can never fail, because they have the Truth of God Yet as a Seal to them: This is the Encouragement, 1 Thes. 5.24. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. And this is the Consolation of Believers, Heb. 6.18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, […] might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope for before us. If God hath once past his Word to your Souls, and His Spirit given his Testimony, that you are the Sons of God; never fear, His Truth stands to pawn for your Salvation: Hath he wrought the Condition in you; your Salvation is then secured: They horribly injure this Attribute, who say a Child of God may lose his Hope. There are also fearful Threatenings menaced by God in his Word against ungodly Men; and here lies the Terror of them, God speaks as he intends. He would not have Men to please themselves with an Opinion, that these are but to fright them, and never purposed to be executed upon them: See how he backs his Menaces against Soul, 1 Sam. 15.2•. And also the strength of Israel will […], nor repent: for he is not a man that he should repent. And how dangerous a thing is it for Men to presume he will not be as Good as his Word, we find in that particular Threatening, Deut. 29 19, 20. And it come to pass when […] •eareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, tho' I walk in the imagination •f mine •ear•, to […] drunkenness to thir•: The Lord will […] spare him, but then the anger of the Lord, and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written […] this book shall He upon him, and the Lord shall […] out his name from er heaven. It is true, God hath graciously left the Door of Repentance open for Sinners to escape; but there is no other way. If God be true, let Sinners then be afraid of coming under his dreadful Threatenings.