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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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5. ADAM consented to and approved of […] Rule, as […] & equal, and […] to the Righteousness of the Sanction of it. For neither did, nor could he Object against it, but consented with Eve in the Declaration of it▪ and when he knew that he had transgressed it, and so brought himself under the Threatening, his Conscience accused him, and he sought to hide himself from God; and where we have God propounding, and Adam consenting, on such Articles, this amounts to a Covenant.
5. ADAM consented to and approved of 〈…〉 Rule, as 〈…〉 & equal, and 〈…〉 to the Righteousness of the Sanction of it. For neither did, nor could he Object against it, but consented with Eve in the Declaration of it▪ and when he knew that he had transgressed it, and so brought himself under the Threatning, his Conscience accused him, and he sought to hide himself from God; and where we have God propounding, and Adam consenting, on such Articles, this amounts to a Covenant.
[2.] WHEN it was made: viz. When God had Created Men. He was first made capable of Covenanting; and then he was Covenanted withal, so that it was not the •eer result of Creation, but consequent upon it, and falls under Government: And Man was no sooner made, and placed in his Station among the Creatures, but God enters into Bonds with him and takes him into Covenant: And the reason of this was, because Man was made capable of Happiness, now he could not be Happy without a Covenant. Those Glorious Rewards of Obedience could not become his due in any other way. He owed Service to God as he was his His Creature, but God owed him nothing, but what he should please freely to give him: Obedience was but His Duty, and there could have been no Merit in it, not could he have challenged a Reward of Life for it, if it had not been Covenanted for on this Condition; for God is voluntarily and not naturally obliged to any of his Creatures. Man no sooner was, but he was to serve God, and God immediately brought him under the strongest Engagements so to do.