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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 41 (Question 10 cont.)
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This was done, Partly in making him a Reasonable Creature; by the Exercise of which Reason he was able to know the Nature and Use of these things, and accordingly to Improve them: But Principally by Virtue of the Image of God which He conferred upon him; which fitted and disposed him to apply these Rational and Moral Powers of his to the right End, which otherwise he could not have done: Man then had a Spirit of Government in him at the First. 7. GOD having thus fitted Man, gave him a Charter of Government over these Creatures: We have it expressed, Gen. 1.28. God delegated to Man a Power under Himself, whereby he became Vicar, and had Authority over the Works of his hands; Psal. 8.6. Thou madest him to have Dominion over the works of thy hands, &c. Hereby they all come to be in Subjection to him: and for the Specimen of this Authority, He brought them all to Adam to give them their Names; Gen. 2.19. Now the Imposition of Names is a Note of Authority. 8. HENCE, During Man's Integrity, All the Creatures were in entire Subjection to him. They all came and did him Homage when they received their Names from him; and God put into them a Passive Obediential Disposition. Even since the Fall there is a Fear & Dread upon them; Gen. 9.2. The Fear & Dread of you shall be upon every Beast of the Earth, &c. But before there was a Spontaneous Subjection; there was such an Instinct in them.
This was done, Partly in making him a Reasonable Creature; by the Exercise of which Reason he was able to know the Nature and Use of these things, and accordingly to Improve them: But Principally by Vertue of the Image of God which He conserred upon him; which fitted and disposed him to apply these Rational and Moral Powers of his to the right End, which otherwise he could not have done: Man then had a Spirit of Government in him at the First. 7. GOD having thus fitted Man, gave him a Charter of Government over these Creatures: We have it expressed, Gen. 1.28. God delegated to Man a Power under Himself, whereby he became Vicar, and had Authority over the Works of his hands;