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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 36 (Question 9 cont.)
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USE. THE consideration of the First Matter may serve to Hum le us: Let us sometimes look back to our Original see the formless Lump th•• we once lay in, and acknowledge it to the Wisdom & Good Will of the Work-man, to make the difference between us and the most deformed: Their deformity is not their fault, but the Creators pleasure: We were hewn out of as knotty […] crooked Timber as they. Yea. learn here th•• we are Brothers & Sisters to Worms, and To••• and Vermin. Job 17.14. I have said to cerrup•••• thou art my Father; to the worm thou art my Afther, and my Sister. Psal. 22.6. They were made of as good Stuff as we are, only the Goodness […] God hath laid out more Curiosity about us.
USE. THE consideration of the First Matter may serve to Hum le us: Let us some••mes look back to our Original see the f•rmless Lump th•• we once lay in, and acknowledge it to the Wisdom & Good Will of the Work-man, to make the difference between us and the most deformed: Their deformity is not their fault, but the Creators pleasure: We were hewn out of as knotty 〈…〉 crooked Timber as they. Yea. learn here th•• we are Brothers & Sisters to Worms, and To••• and Vermine. Job 17.14. I have said to cerrup•••• thou art my Father; to the worm thou art my Afther, and my Sister. Psal. 22.6. They were made of as good Stuff as we are, only the Goodness 〈…〉 God hath laid out more Curiosity about us.