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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 31 (Question 6)
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4. THIS Knowledge will confirm us in the Belief of the Scriptures. We know the Word of God to be True, upon Divine Testimony; The Word of God, is the Basis of our Faith & Hope; It is needful then that we be confirmed in the Verity of it: And by this Knowledge we find that there are Three Witnesses, 1 Joh. 5.7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And see Jo•. •.12,—18.
5. THIS Knowledge is necessary to our Communion with God. Those that have true Fellowship with him, have it with One God in Three Persons, 1 Joh 1.3. That which we have seen and heard, declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 13.14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all: Amen. It is by the Son that we come to the Father; and the Holy Ghost brings us to Christ. And if we desire to have a right Conception of these things, we must veil Carnal Reason, and hearken to the Word of God, and content our selves with studying what that reveals of this Mystery.
USE 3. BE we also advised, if we desire to be truly happy, to labour to make sure of an Interest in this One God in Three Persons. Let us cease from vain Creatures, which can neither deliver us from Misery, nor make us Happy: But here is all Communicable Glory to be derived to the Soul: One God in Three Persons, is a sufficient Portion for all Souls: If we can come to enjoy God Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, we are Blessed forever. Let us then ascribe all Glory hither, and expect all Happiness from hence; that Unity in a Trinity, from whom we derived our Being, unto whom we owe our Lives and all that we have and are, and at whose Hands we only can receive our Eternal Felicity.