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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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5. THE •pan• which they are brought, ••s•ecting this eternity i• twofold, […], either of Happiness or Misery. Some are appointed and led to a State of Eternal Life and Glory, others to a Condition of Eternal Death and Punishment, Matth. 25. ult. And these shall shall go away into everlasting p•ris•m••t: but the righteous into life eternal. S•me shall hare the Beatifical Vision and Fruition of God forever; 1 Pet. 5.10. The God of al• grace, who hath called at unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus. Others shall be cast forever from His Presence into Everlasting Burnings; 2 Thes. 1.9. Who shall be ••••shed with everlasting destruction from the […] of the Lord, and from the glory of […]. Here observe, (1.) THAT there are two glorious Attributes of God, which be intends principally to exact in His Reasonable Creatures; and they are His […] Grace, and His Justice. These are […] to be called his Moral Perfections, and […] that Reason Moral Agents are to be the Subjects in whom the Declarative Glory of them is to be manifested; and that God hath designed the Glorifying of these Perfections in this Subject, is witnessed in the forecited, Rom. 9.21, 23. (2.) THAT these Attributes •ay for ever […] in them, th•re must be some everlasting •••••ments of each of them. That Grace may appear Eternally, there must be some that must be made endlessly Happy, in such a way, as may render it admirable. And that […] may fit in State, and may triumph for ever, others are ordained to be perpetual […] of it, by suffering Eternal Punishment. This is one of God's ancient Decrees, and therefore they are said to be of all ordained to it, Jde ver. 4. (3.) THAT this may be effected, they must needs come under the special Government of God. These things refer to the consideration of Rewards and Punishments, and are to be dispensed with Authority, and God acts in it as a Judge; and therefore they must needs come under a Rule, in which the Creature is concerned as a natural Agent: Hence we read,