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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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and they are Spirits, and so no other Creatures on grapple with them: One Angel can Cope with an Army of Men. We see what Work they make where they come, Matth. 28. beg. 4. GREATEST Activity, that they may with all speed perform the Commands of God. Their Spiritual Nature makes them so: Nothing can stop their Course: They are winged, E•••. 1.6. They are to ride Post from Heaven to Earth: They have the largest Journeys to go; and the Kings's Business requires hast, and the Necessity of God's People is very urgent, and calls for greatest Celerity; Dan. 9.21.
and they are Spirits, and so no other Creatures on grapple with them: One Angel can Cope with an Army of Men. We see what Work they make where they come, Matth. 28. beg. 4. GREATEST Activity, that they may with all speed perform the Commands of God. Their Spiritual Nature makes them so: Nothing can stop their Course: They are winged, E•••. 1.6. They are to ride Post from Heaven to Earth: They have the largest Journeys to go; and the Kings's Bustness requires hast, and the Necessity of God's People is very urgent, and calls for greatest Celerity; Dan. 9.21.
USE: FROM the consideration of the Third Heaven; Learn,
1. THE great Love of God to His Chosen, in providing a Heaven for them, before they were. This was the first work of Efficiency that God wrought: Before he made Man, he made Provision for him; and that not only for his Temporary Abode an Earth, but for his Eternal Habitation. What Thoughts then should God's Children entertain of Him, who had such Thoughts of good Will for them, in the Days of Eternity?