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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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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?
1. THE great Love of God to His Crosen, 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 Tempotary Abode an Earth, but for his Eternal Habitation. What Tho'ts then should God's Children entertain of Him, who had such Tho'ts of good Will for them, in the Days of Eternity?
2. WHO they […] this are most s•• f•r Heaven, and like to go ••••er when they dye: They are H•ly Ones, such as are sanctified by the Spirit of God, and so made meet for the Inheritance. Groundless are the hopes of Unholy Persons. to have any part here: Heaven indeed is not for their Turn, neither the Place, nor the Company. hor the Employment; nor can it give them Entertainment, but would spue them out, if they were in it. This consideration invites all to Holiness, that would not be ashamed of their Hope; 1 John. 3.3. He that b••• this […] puristeth himself.
2. WHO they 〈…〉 this are most s•• f•r Heaver, and like to go ••••er when they dye: They are Hly Ones, such as are sanctified by the Spirit of God, and so made meet for the Inhentance. Groundless are the hopes of Unboly Persons. to have any part here: Heaven indeed is not for their Turn, neither the Place, nor the Company. hor the Employment; nor can it give them Entertainment, but would spue them out, if they were in it. This consideration invites all to Holiness, that would not be ashamed of their Hope;