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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 50 (Question 13)
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HITHERTO we have seen Man bidding fair for Happiness; being Created in the Image of God, furnished with a stock of Original Sanctification, f•••ing him for the whole Obedience of the Moral Law, and put under a Covenant firmly engaging Life to him upon that Obedience: And now what should hinder him? What stronger tie could there lie upon him, than the assured Felicity which should have been his ⟨p. 156⟩Reward, and the certain Misery he should incur in Case he should Transgress? But behold, The next News is, Man is fallen and undone: And this is the doleful Condition we are now to enquire into: We have considered the First Covenant as the Rule of God's special Government, and according to the Tenor of which, He leads Men to an Everlasting State of Happiness or Misery: We are now,
HITHERTO we have seen Man bidding fair for Happiness; being Created in the Image of God, furnished with a stock of Original Sanctification, f•••ing him for the whole Obedience of the Moral Law, and put under a Covenant firmly engaging Life to him upon that Obedience: And now what should hinder him? What stronger tye could there ly upon him, than the assured Felicity which should have been his ⟨p. 156⟩Reward, and the certain Misery he should incur in Case he should Transgress? But behold, The next News is, Man is fallen and undone: And this is the doleful Condition we are now to enquire into: We have considered the First Covenant as the Rule of God's special Government, and according to the Tenour of which, He leads Men to an Everlasting State of Happiness or Misery: We are now,
III. TO take a view of the Things that were consequent upon this Covenant, with respect unto Man; or what becomes of him wi•h r•••rence unto it: And all of this will be reduced unto Two Heads, viz. Man's Apostasy; and his Recovery: The Apostasy subjects Men to Everlasting Misery, and God leaves multitudes to Perish in it; but there is also a Recovery and Restitution in which many are restored to the Enjoyment of Felicity.