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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. THE substance of the Covenant was the Moral Law, considered as the bond of the Obligation of the Creature unto God; as it was imposed by God, and accepted by Man. Imposed upon a Subject, over whom God had the right of Dominion: Thus is the Law the matter of the first Covenant, and therefore it is indifferently in Scripture called, sometimes a Covenant, and sometimes a Law; it being that unto which all Man's references are in the Covenant between him and his God, and the ground of the Divine procedure with him.
2. THE substance of the Covenant was the Moral Law, considered as the bond of the Obligation of the Creature unto God; as it was imposed by God, and accepted by Man. Imposed upon a Subject, over whom God had the right of Dominion: Thus is the Law the matter of the first Covenant, and therefore it is indifferently in Scripture called, sometimes a Covenant, and sometimes a Law; it being that unto which all Man's references are in the Covenant between him and his God, and the ground of the Divine proceedure with him.
3. IN this Covenant we are to observe the Parts of it; and they are two, viz. The conditions propounded, and the consequents annexed: For, as there are two Parties in a Covenant, so there is something that each of the Parties is obliged to, and the Obligation is on both, or else it could not be a Covenant: Now the conditions here are the Obligations laid upon Man, the annexed consequents are those which God hath taken upon Himself, and bound Himself unto: and there was a strong connection between these; as therefore the conditions were two, viz. Obedience and Disobedience; so were the consequents, viz. Life and Death; the former referring to Obedience, and was contained in a Promise, the latter to Disobedience, and consists of a Threatening: Here then, (1.) THE Condition of Life was Obedience, Rom. 10.5. Now Moral Obedience, is Man's due, and Perfect, Personal attendance to the revealed will of God, or the command given to him, and thereby resting, satisfied in God, as the chief good;