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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 35 (Question 9 cont.)
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For, 1. IT is a most Glorious Place: It is made of the most pure and subtle ••atter of all Bodies in the World; the most curious and stately Earthly Palace, is but a Dungeon compared with it; all the Excellency of the lower World, is not fit to set off the Glory of the Third Heaven, so much as by a S•a•••. It is so glorious and shining, that it needs no Sun to give ••ght there; precious Stones and Pearls are there trodden on; Rev. 21.18, —23. 2. IT is a most Spacious Place. If any Place could contain God, it were this; 1 Kings 8.27. —But, behold the Heaven, and Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee—. It is of sufficient Capacity to entertain all the Heirs of Glory; […] great City, Rev. 21.10. It grasps in its Concavity, the whole frame of Inconstant Natures; the Earth is but a point to it; the Starry Heaven, as large as it is, is but a strait room compared with it. 3. IT is filled with all possible Delights, and transcendent Pleasures. All that this World affords; Food, Raiment, Music, Fountains, Rivers, Gardent, &c. are but a dark shadow of the Pleasures of this Place; it was made for Delights and these all of them Full and Eternal, Psal. 16. […].— In thy presence is fullness of Joy, at thy right land are pleasures for evermore. 4. THE titles given it in Scripture show its excellency. 'Tis called Paradise, Luk. 23.43. An House not made with bands, 2 Cor. 5.1. A City whose builder & maker is God, Heb. 11.10. The City of the Living God, Heb. 12.22, The Father's House, Job. 14.2. The Third Heaven,