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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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USE 1. HERE […] see the ground of that Truth; that Man's Perdition is in himself, Hos. 1••9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self. Man is his own undoer, he had a perfect Law given him, and he might have obeyed it if he would, and so have been forever happy: If he would […] and throw himself away forever, he must •••nd to the hazard of it; if he die and be damned, he can charge none with the guilt of it but himself: The Covenant was a Law of life in it self, if he finds it become a Law of Death, it is through' his own Default. Man by Covenant was put upon making his own Choice, whether he would Live or Die; if he then Choose to Die, against all Warnings, he justly deserves to be filled with his own Device.
USE 1. HERE 〈…〉 see the ground of that Truth; that Man's Perdition is in himself, Hos. 1••9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self. Man is his own undoer, he had a perfect Law given him, and he might have obeyed it if he would, and so have been forever happy: If he would 〈…〉 and throw himself away forever, he must •••nd to the hazard of it; if he dy and be damned, he can charge none with the guilt of it but himself: The Covenant was a Law of life in it self, if he finds it become a Law of Death, it is thro' his own Default. Man by Covenant was put upon making his own Choice, whether he would Live or Dy; if he then Chuse to Dy, against all Warnings, he justly deserves to be filled with his own Device.
USE 2. SEE •ere a Reason of the Justice of God's proceedings against the Heathen; to punish them with Eternal Death. Not as they have refused to accept of the Second, but as they have violated the First Covenant. The terms of Reconciliation were never proposed to them, and hence they are not on this account Guilty, neither have they received the written Word, in which the Law is revived, (and hence said to be Judged without the Law,