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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of the Law of God.
1 John 3.4. Sin is a Transgression of the Law. Of Sin in general.
1. Sin is [Greek or Hebrew], a Violation or Transgression. The Latin word transgredior, to transgress, signifies to go beyond ones Bounds. The Moral Law is to keep us within the bounds of our Duty; Sin is a going beyond our bounds.
1. Sin is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Violation or Transgression. The Latin word transgredior, to transgress, signifies to go beyond ones Bounds. The Moral Law is to keep us within the bounds of our Duty; Sin is a going beyond our bounds.
2. The Law of God; it is not the Law of an Inferior Prince is broken, but of Jehovah, who gives Laws as well to Angels as Men; it is a Law that is just, and holy, and good, Rom. 7.12