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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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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.
2. ANGELS were each one of them to stand or fall for himself; whereas Adam was the common Head of Mankind. All the Individual Angels were Created at once, in their natural Perfection, and therefore each one made his own Choice voluntarily; but Man was made One at the First, and to be multiplied by Propagation, and in that One, all were comprehended, and transacted for, as will afterwards be considered.
3. OF the Angels, some stood never to ••ll, others fell, never to be restored; whereas in the First Adam, the whole race of Mankind fell under a Curse of Death; and there are some who remain under that Apostasy, and others who ar• again restored unto Life by the Second Adam. But, as it little concerns us at present, to know the particular Transaction between God and the Angels, so the Scripture hath spoken but little distinctly about it; but as it relates to Men, we are all deeply interested in it, and have need to be well-acquainted with it from the beginning to the end.
3. OF the Angels, some stood never to ••ll, others fell, never to be restored; whereas in the First Adam, the whole race of Mankind fell under a Curse of Death; and there are some who remain under that Apostacy, and others who ar again restored unto Life by the Second Adam. But, as it little concerns us at present, to know the particular Transaction between God and the Angels, so the Scripture hath spoken but little distinctly about it; but as it relates to Men, we are all deeply interested in it, and have need to be well-acquainted with it from the begining to the end.