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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 33 (Question 8)
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USE 4 HENCE God is to be sought to, to work all our works in us, and for us: We, alas! can do nothing of our selves; and yet we have great Duties lying upon us, but are without Strength; our Operations depend upon him; Phil. 2.13. It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his good pleasure. Joh. 15.5. — Without me, ye can do nothing. He must set our Wheels on going, else they stand still.
USE 5. HERE is the Reason, why the Saints shall never fail in their Works; because they have an Interest in, and Assistance from Him, who works all things according to the Counsel of His Will. Christ, who is all, and in all, dwells in them and helps them; the Spirit, who is God, hath made them his Temple, how then shall they fail
USE 6. LET this then encourage Faith in God, for the accomplishment of every Promise, and direct us to give to God the acknowledgement of all the Performances of them. When God would establish His People's Faith. He leads them hither, Isa. 45.11, 12. Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, ask me of things to come, concerning my sons; I have made the Earth, and Created Man upon it, &c. And when Paul would draw us to give God all Praise he points us to this, Rom. 11.36. For of him, and through' him, and to him, are all things; to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
USE 6. LET this then encourage Faith in God, for the accomplishment of every Promise, and direct us to give to God the acknowledgment of all the Performances of them. When God would establish His People's Faith. He leads them hither,