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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 49 (Question 12 cont.)
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WE have taken a brief view of the Nature of Special Government, as it differs from that which is Common,
Secondly. THE Subjects of this Government, (we observed,) are Reasonable Creatures: Now these are of Two sorts, viz. Angels and Men. Both of these are equally concerned i• this Government, as to the Substance of it▪ being created with, as Causes by Counsel, and having a Law given them, according to the Tenor of which they were to be everlastingly Happy or Miserable. Only we may observe these differences:
Secondly. THE Subjects of this Government, (we observed,) are Reasonable Creatures: Now these are of Two sorts, viz. Angels and Men. Both of these are equally concerned i• this Government, as to the Substance of it▪ being created with, as Causes by Counsel, and having a Law given them, according to the Tenour of which they were to be everlastingly Happy or Miserable. Only we may observe these differences:
1. THERE are many particular things i• the Moral Law, which the Angels were not capable of, but were proper to Men: The Angels being Spirits, whereas those things have a respect to Man considered as having a Body as well as a Soul; and bearing some Relations which they do not, to which there are Relative Duties annexed; such as between Husband and Wife, Parents and Children; Moderation is using the Good Things of this Life; instituted Worship, &c.