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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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NOW these terms were sixth, ratified, unalterable; and that on God's part as well as Man's: He engaged His Holiness, Justice Truth in it, and they were to stand inviolable, Mat. 5.18. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one […] or one tide shall in […] wi•e pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Hence,
NOW these terms were fixt, ratified, unalterable; and that on God's part as well as Man's: He engaged His Holiness, Justice Truth in it, and they were to stand inviolable, Mat. 5.18. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one 〈…〉 or one tide shall in 〈…〉 wi•e pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Hence,
[5.] WE are to observe the Sacraments which were annexed as Seals to this Covenant, and they were two, viz. the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge, Gen. 2.9.
1. THE Tree of Life was a Sacrament, whereby God Sealed up a constant Life of Happiness, ⟨p. 155⟩in case of his Obedience, Gen. 3.22. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And […] lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. God had given to Man a concreated Power Moral, enabling of him to obey perfectly; but he was mutable: Hence to encourage him, He made to him a glorious Promise of an excellent Reward, if he would be Faithful; and to ratify this Promise and to make it the more obliging, He sequestered this Tree, and put that figure upon it, that it should be a Sign and a Seal of the Promise, and by looking upon it, he might stimulate himself, and fortify against all Temptations to draw him away.