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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 30 (Question 5)
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Hence learn, 1. THAT Polytheism is but a sort of Atheism. They that worship more Gods than God, do in effect worship no God at all: For they cannot worship any one at God, who divide their Worship to more than One: They therefore who thus fear God, are in Scripture said, not to fear him, a King. 17.33, 34. They scared the Lord, and served their […], ••ter the […] of the nations, whom they carried away from thence. Unto this day they do after former manners: they fear not the Lord—. 2 THAT there can be but One Religion. Religion is properly the Worshipping and Serving of God: Where there is no God acknowledged, there is no Religion professed, and if so, then, where there is but One God confessed, there […] to be but One Religion practised. The Reason of the Heathens different Rites, was their adoring of divers Gods, whom they apprehended they must worship in a different manner: Thus therefore the Apostle argues, Eph. 4.4, 5, 6. There is one body, and one Sp•••, even as ye are called in one hope of your •• •ing; One Lord, one saith, are baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Hence learn, 1. THAT Polytheism is but a sort of Atheism. They that worship more Gods than God, do in effect worship no God at all: For they cannot worship any one at God, who divide their Worship to more than One: They therefore who thus fear God, are in Scripture said, not to fear him, a King. 17.33, 34. They scared the Lord, and served their 〈…〉, ••ter the 〈…〉 of the nations, whom they carried away from thence. Unto this day they do after former manners: they fear not the Lord—. 2 THAT there can be but One Religion. Religion is properly the Worshipping and Serving of God: Where there is no God acknowledged, there is no Religion professed, and if so, then, where there is but One God confessed, there 〈…〉 to be but One Religion practised. The Reason of the Heathens different Rites, was their adoring of divers Gods, whom they apprehended they must worship in a different manner: Thus therefore the Apostle argues,