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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 40 (Question 10 cont.)
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1. IN Knowledge: This refers to the Understanding, and comprehends under it all the Intellectual Virtues fitting him to discern, approve of, and regulate himself a•ight to the doing the Will or God. He had a Sanctified Understanding, discerning the Rule, and the Excellency of it, it's suitableness to his Nature, and the Infinite Wisdom of God shining in it! He had a Spiritual discerning of all that was needful to his Happiness: This fallen Man hath lost; 1 Cor. 2.14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, &c. And thus Hagar complains, Prov. 30.2. I am more brutish then any Man, and ••ve nor […]. Understanding of a Man: Which argues that Adam had a vast Measure of it.
1. IN Knowledge: This refers to the Understanding, and comprehends under it all the Intellectual Vertues fitting him to discern, approve of, and regulate himself a•ight to the doing the Will or God. He had a Sanctified Understanding, discerning the Rule, and the Excellency of it, it's suitableness to his Nature, and the Infinite Wisdom of God shining in it! He had a Spiritual discerning of all that was needfull to his Happiness: This fallen Man hath lost; 1 Cor. 2.14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, &c. And thus Agar complains, Prov. 30.2. I am more bruitish then any Man, and ••ve nor 〈…〉. Understanding of a Man: Which argues that Adam had a vast Measure of it.
2. IN Righteousness & Holiness: These refer to the Will and Affections, and influenced the whole Man: and so it was a Power and Inclination to close in with God entirely as his Chief Good and Last End, and so of fulfilling she whole Law: In thus doing he was to be Happy. The Law of God is divided into Two Tables, in the one is required a full closing of the whole Man with God, in the other a subordinate Love to our Fellow-Creatures