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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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4. THE State unto which the Reasonable Creature is conducted by this Government: It is an Everlasting State. This will be evident, if we consider, (1.) THAT the Subjects of this Government are to abide for ever. They are Angels and […]: Angels in respect of their entire •eing; and Men in respect of their Souls, are immortal Substances: And though their mortal Bodies must suffer Corruption yet they shall •e […] again to incorruption, Matth. 23.30. For in the r•••rrection they neither […] given in marriage; but •re as the angels of God in heaven. 1 Cor. 15.42. […] the resurrection of the dead, it is […] raised in incorruption. They shall therefore continue for ever; for it is derogatory to the Infinite Wisdom of the Creator, to make […] Immortal Subject, and afterwards to annihilate it. (2.) THAT there are Everlasting Places prepared in purpose for these Subjects it be disposed in And why should Eternal […] be provided, unless the Creatures State in them were commensurable for duration? But that there are such, the Scripture plentifully inform us, Joh. 14 2. In my fathers house are may mar•ers; if it were not so, I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you. Isa 33.14. […] among us shall dwell with the […] fire? […] dwell with everlasting burnings. Yea we are told that they shall be here forever, Matth. 25. ult. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (3.) THAT God will have some Everlasting Monuments of his own Infinite Glory, in […] the shine of his Divine Moral Perfections, […] be illustrious for ever. We are told that God will have it so, Rom. 9.22, 23. What of God willing to show his wrath, and to wake his power known, endured wi•h much long suffering […] vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. And that he might make known the riches of his glory […] the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory? Other Beings, tho' their Me e perisheth not, yet their Substances are resolved into their Principles, and they are no more, and the whole Species of them will […] long cease; but these must remain, that God's Glory may be seen in them Eternally; they perish but these must endure,