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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 49 (Question 12 cont.)
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[1.] THAT there was such a Covenant past […] God & Man. I need not here tarry […] Discourse of the Nature of a Covenant in General. Where two Parties do stand mutually obliged one to another in a voluntary Agreement, there is a Covenant: that there was such […] transaction between God and Man will appear if we consider.
[1.] THAT there was such a Covenant past 〈…〉 God & Man. I need not here tarry 〈…〉 Discourse of the Nature of a Covenant in General. Where two Parties do stand mutually obliged one to another in a voluntary Agreement, there is a Covenant: that there was such 〈…〉 •ransaction between God and Man will appear if we consider.
1. THAT Adam was by Creation God's Servant. He was made, as all other. Creatures were, for the Service of his Creator, Prov. •0.4. The Lord hath made all things for himself. He was a Creature, and so bound for God as his last end: for this is the natural respect which a Creature owes to the Creator, and it is due to Him for giving it it's Being; Psal. 100.2, 3. Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God, it is […] that made us, and not we our selves; we are his people, and the sheep of his posture.
1. THAT Adam was by Creation God's Servant. He was made, as all other. Creatures were, for the Service of his Creator, Prov. •0.4. The Lord hath made all things for himself. He was a Creature, and so bound for God as his last end: for this is the natural respect which a Creature owes to the Creator, and it is due to Him for giving it it's Being;