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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 40 (Question 10 cont.)
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IV. THE Adjunct perfection which was bestowed upon Man in his Creation, viz. God made him after his own Image, with Holiness, Righteousness & Knowledge. The Perfection of a thing is, when it is made completely fit to attain its End: thus was Man Made: Eccl. 7.29, God made man upright—. I call it his Adjunct Perfection, because it was not essential to his Humanity, but separate from it, that remaining entire: but tho' it was not Natural, yet it was Con-natural, or due to his Nature at First, with respect to the End that he was made for: This will more fully appear in the Consideration of the Nature of this Image, of which there are divers Notions among Divines: I shall here consider it under the Notion of that which some call the Moral Image, to which I think that in strictness ought to be restrained: And it is thus Described;
IV. THE Adjunct perfection which was bestowed upon Man in his Creation, viz. God made him after his own Image, with Holiness, Righteousness & Knowledge. The Perfection of a thing is, when it is made compleatly fit to attain its End: thus was Man Made: Eccl. 7.29, God made man upright—. I call it his Adjunct Perfection, because it was not essential to his Humanity, but seperate from it, that remaining entire: but tho' it was not Natural, yet it was Con-natural, or due to his Nature at First, with respect to the End that he was made for: This will more fully appear in the Consideration of the Nature of this Image, of which there are divers Notions among Divines: I shall here consider it under the Notion of that which some call the Moral Image, to which I think that in strictness ought to be restrained: And it is thus Described;
THE Image of God on Man, was that Moral Rectitude which was imprinted on his whole Nature, making him in his Manner & Measure fit to Resemble, and able to Serve God.