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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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and for that Reason it was a Covenant of Works, because there was a work set him to do, on which his happiness depended, Isai. 56.2. (2.) THE Reward promised to this Obedience was Life: In which Life there was contained the continuance of an Unchangeable state of Blessedness, in the full enjoyment of the Infinite goodness of God to his utmost capacity, Rom. 10.5. There are Two things contained in it, 1. AN Immutable S••te of Blessedness. He should have been confirmed in his Obedience, and never lost it, and so have been everlastingly happy: for it is Eternal Life that is promised: for as this is the reward of Faith now, so it should have been of Obedience then; for it is the same Life is promised in both Covenants: and the continuance of his bodily Life, was included in it. 2. A full Fruition of God to be his Port•••: and that is Life, Psal. 30.5. He should […] been his God, Exod. 20.2 and he should […] been his for ever. Psal. 48. ult. For this God's our God for ever and ever; he will be our […] even unto death. (3.) THE condition of Death was Disobedience▪ And this is contrary to the former; as t•e•• fore it was enjoined him, so this was ••••• den him: and it was his Non-attenda••• […] God's will, and taking up with something •• stead of God for his portion; and it […] in any coming short of duty, or transgre••• of the Command: This is called Disobedience, Rom. 5.19. And as the Obedience consisted […] an entire conformity to the whole Law, so […] Disobedience, was in coming short in any […] Article,