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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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2. ADAM was a Reasonable Creature, and so be owed unto God a Reasonable Service. Rom. 12.1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable Service. The Nature of the Creature discovers the Quality of the Service that it owes to God; for the Operation follows the Being of the thing: And as a Reasonable Creature, Man was capable of Transacting with God in the way of a Covenant; he was able to understand, and subscribe to the Articles, to give his free Consent, and set his Seal to them.
3. GOD's dealing with all his Creatures is according to their manner of working. Man therefore was made in such a Capacity, that so he might actually be indented with; and hereupon God traded with him in this way. Hence,
4. THE Transaction between God & Man, recorded, Gen. 2. carries in it the Substance of […] Covenant; as will be evident if we consider, (1.) THAT God gave him a Law or Rule to walk by. He pointed him to what was his Duty; laid out the way of his Obedience before him; Mic. 6.8. He hath showed thee O man, what is Good, and what doth the Lord require of thee. (2.) HE joined to the Ru•e, Conditional Promises and Threatenings; by which both God and Man became obliged. For both did God engage Himself to proceed according to these Sanctions, and laid Man under them: