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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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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 Matth. 22 37, 38. Then shalt love the Lord thy and with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Mind; this is the first and great Commandment; and the second is like […] it, Thou shall Love thy Neighbour as thy self. The Principle enabling Man to do the former, is called Holiness; that which fits him to the letter, is called Righteousness in Scripture. Now this Principle in the Will not only enabled, but also inclined the Man to the exercise of these: It disposed it to make such a Choice, and renounce whatsoever was contrary; to Choose the Good, and Refuse the Evil, by a Free, Full and Perfect Elicit Act: In the Affections and outward Man, it was that which inclined him to an entire Subjection to the Commands of the Sanctified Understanding and Will, without the least Reluctancy, or being pressed to Obey them; so that he was in a Readiness for every Good Work. The Body as well as the Soul, the Sensible as well as the Rational Powers were fit for their Business, and there was no Pravity or Disorder in this whole Frame; but he was every way fitted, both to Will, and to Do, according to the Discretion of his Maker. That Man at First had such a Power and Principle as this is, needs no other Evidence, than that less than so, could not have fitted Him for his End, or denominate him Good, in the Station he was put into, under the special Government of God.
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 Matth. 22 37, 38. Then shalt love the Lord thy and with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, and with all thy Mind; this is the first and great Commandment; and the second is like it, Thou shall Love thy Neighbour as thy self. The Principle enabling Man to do the former, is called Holiness; that which fits him to the letter, is called Righteousness in Scripture. Now this Principle in the Will not only enabled, but also enclined the Man to the exercise of these: It disposed it to make such a Choice, and renounce whatsoever was contrary; to Choose the Good, and Refuse the Evil, by a Free, Full and Perfect Elicit Act: In the Affections and outward Man, it was that which enclined him to an entire Subjection to the Commands of the Sanctified Understanding and Will, without the least Reluctancy, or being prest to Obey them; so that he was in a Readiness for every Good Work. The Body as well as the Soul, the Sensible as well as the Rational Powers were fit for their Business, and there was no Pravity or Disorder in this whole Frame; but he was every way sitted, both to Will, and to Do, according to the Discretion of his Maker. That Man at First had such a Power and Principle as this is, needs no other Evidence, than that less than so, could not have sitted Him for his End, or denominate him Good, in the Station he was put into, under the special Government of God.