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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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[4.] THE Nature of the Covenant is express in the residue of the Answer: Life was promised upon the Condition, &c. Here let us observe,
1. THAT the Covenant between God and Man was a Covenant between Unequals. Such as there is between a King and his Subjects, or a Master and his Servants; this indeed is but a shadow of it, because God's Supremacy is absolute; and he hath a Sovereign Right to lay ⟨p. 154⟩His Commands, and give Articles as He pleaseth, and for that reason it properly belongs to Government; and it is properly called the Covenant of God, and not of Man, in as much as He is the Author and Executor of it; Deut. 8.19. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day, that ye shall surely perish.
1. THAT the Covenant between God and Man was a Covenant between Unequals. Such as there is between a King and his Subjects, or a Master and his Servants; this indeed is but a shadow of it, because God's Supremacy is absolute; and he hath a Sovereign Right to lay ⟨p. 154⟩His Commands, and give Articles as He pleaseth, and for that reason it properly belongs to Government; and it is properly called the Covenant of God, and not of Man, in as much as He is the Author and Executor of it; Deut. 8.19. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testifie against you this day, that ye shal surely perish.