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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 48 (Question 12)
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and hence they would serve to no End, and so be in vain, which is not to be conceived; for so God would lose the Glory of the Service of His noblest Creatures, in their most excellent Endowments. This Moral Law is therefore usually called by Divines, the Law of Nature; not in a •••ger sense respecting the whole Nature of the Creature, but […], relating to the Nature of Man, because it was fitted to his Nature, and the Reasons of it are to be read in the Light of Nature, so far as it remains in him: It is therefore called a Good Law, in Rom. 7.12. (5.) GOD is first gave Man this Law for his […]. It was that according to which He required him to conform Himself. The New […] of the Moral Law upon Mount Si•a•, drawn up into Ten Commandments, was nothing else but a Transcript of the Law given to Adam at First; which fallen Man had lost the Sense of in a great measure; and therefore the Rel•cts of it are intimated to be in the Hearts of those very Heathen who never had a Copy of that which was given by Moses, Rom 2.14, 15. For where the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, those having not the law, •re a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also hearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another. (6.) THIS Moral Law was given to Man to be a perpetual Rule: And that both for his measuring his Actions by, and God's measuring out his Rewards of them according to it. It was to be perpetual. There was a Ceremonial Law given afterwards, which was to be transient, but this was to abide as long as this Government of God continued; and for this Reason our Saviour hath that Assertion, Matth. 5.18. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one yet or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, till […] be fulfilled. We therefore read; Psal. 19.9. T•e fear of the Lord is clean, ••d•ring orever.