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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 48 (Question 12)
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The New Covenant only admits that it •e answered by a Surety; but it is certain, that there shall be none stand hen in the Judgment, but they whom Justice it self shall give an acquittance unto, and declare for then that they have obeyed.
USE 1. WE hence learn, That Man was neither Happy nor Miserable by Creation. Creation made him a Subject capable of either, but it put him into neither.
HERE let us observe,
1. HAPPINESS & Misery do not belong to the head of Creation, but of special Government. God must lead him to this State, if ever he arrives at it; but God doth not lead him thereto by the Rule of Creation; in that he only gave him a Nature that he might be Happy, and an Ability to comply with the way to it.
1. HAPPINESS & Misery do not belong to the head of Creation, but of special Government. God must lead him to this State, if ever he arrives at it; but God doth not lead him thereto by the Rule of Creation; in that he only gave him a Nature that he might be Happy, and an Abiity to comply with the way to it.