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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 31 (Question 6)
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USE 2. BE we all Exhorted to labour after a distinct Knowledge of the Trinity. To move you to it Consider,
1. THIS Knowledge is necessary to Salvation. One God in Three Persons is the Object of o•• Faith; and to know Him so, is our Life, Joh. 17.• And this is life eternal, that they might know th•• the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom th•• hast sent. The Knowledge of God the Father is necessary, Joh. 1.18. No men hath seen God • any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Of the Son, 1 Joh. 5.20. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true: and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. Of the Holy Ghost, Rom. 8.9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And the Reason is, because God heareth none but such as come in the Name of Christ; and by the He•• of the Spirit.
2. THIS Knowledge will establish you against damnable Heresies, which Carnal Reason hath truded on Man: Such as those of the Antetrinitarians, the Trithes, the Arians & Scinians.