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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 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, Rom. 2.12.) but all Mankind owe Obedience to the Law Moral; and were interested in the Covenant made with Man in Adam; the breach of which Covenant they stand Guilty of; having sinned, and come short of the glory of God, Rom. 3.23.
USE 2. SEE •ere a Reason of the Justice of God's proceedings against the Heathen; to pu•ish 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, Rom. 2.12.) but all Mankind owe Obedience to the Law Moral; and were interested in the Covenant made with Man in Adam; the breach of which Covenant they stand Guilty of; having sinned, and come short of the glory of God, Rom. 3.23.
USE 3. SEE how impossible it is for fallen Man, by Personal Legal Obedience to recover a State of Life & Happiness. The Nature of the Covenant of Works discovers the vain attempt of Legalists, who go about to establish a Righteousness of their own: The Nature of this Covenant shows it absolutely impossible for fallen Man to recover Gods Favour by his own works: The Covenant said, if Man in, he shall certainly Die, and it Sealed it: How unreasonable then is it for any to think by a new Obedience, personal, to recover himself again to the Promise of Life, who is for Sin already actually under the threatening of Death; which must be Executed, or the Truth, Justice and Holiness of God will suffer. Let Men walk never so exactly, yet there is Guilt upon them; and if not removed, they must Dy.