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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. WHAT little need God hath of our Service. If we speak of his declarative Glory; see what an innumerable Company of Glorious Servitors are always attending on his Throne speedily, cheerfully, constantly doing his Will; what a Wonder then is it that he will accept of such dull, cold, and listless Services as ours are?
1. WHAT little need God hath of our Service. If we speak of his declarative Glory; see what an innumerable Company of Glonous Servitors are always attending on his Throne speedily, chearfully, constantly doing his Will; what a Wonder then is it that he will accept of such dull, cold, and listless Services as ours are?
2. WHAT Royal Persons God's People are • for whom God hath provided such Ministers of State, to attend upon them: How honourable are they in God's Eyes, and how safe from Evil, Psal. 91.10, 11. There shall no evil befall thee, for he shall give his Angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. How dangerous then is it for any to dare to meddle with them, or offer to do them any injury?
2. WHAT Royal Persons God's People are • for whom God hath provided such Ministers of State, to attend upon them: How honourable are they in God's Eyes, and how safe from Evil, Psal. 91.10, 11. There shall no evil befall thee, for he shall give his Angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. How dangerous then is it for any to dare to meddle with them, or offer to do them any •njury?