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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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4. THEY were Created on purpose to be Ministering Spirits unto God. Here consider, 1. THEIR Ministry it self, asserted. Heb 1.14. Are they not all Ministering Spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be b•irs of salvation And it is two fold, 1. TO Celebrate the Glory of God. Psal. 103.20. Bless the Lord ye his Angels, &c. Psal. 148.2. Praise him all ye his Angels —. To advance his great Name in his Works; hence that. Luk. 2.13, 14. — A multitude of the heavenly host praising ⟨p. 113⟩God, saying, Glory to God the bighest— The Heaven passively glorifies God, but these •o it actively; waiting at his Throne, and confe•••ng with Adoration; Isa. 6.1, 2, 3. 2. TO fulfil his Commands. Psal. 102.20. — His Ange•s that do his commandments, &c. It is the Honour of the great King, to have these noble Personages waiting on his Throne; and their Employment is about Matters of greatest Moment: Hence they have great Names put upon them, Thrones, Principalities, &c. They do all according to the Pleasure of the most high; Ezek. 1.12.—It hither the spirit was to go, they went—. And their special Ministry is for the good of the Children of God; Heb. 1.14. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent s•••h to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Psal •1 11. For whose sakes they intermeddle with the Affairs of Kingdoms, and interpose to defeat the Plots of Potentates against God's People,