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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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HERE then •wo Things may be looked into for the opening and confirming of this Truth. 1. Something in General concerning the Apostasy of Man. 2. Something in Particular about the way in which it was brought about.
HERE then •wo Things may be look'd into for the opening and confirming of this Truth. 1. Something in General concerning the Apostacy of Man. 2. Something in Particular about the way in which it was brought about.
I. IN General respecting Man's Apostasy; there are three Things worthy our Reflection, viz.
I. IN General respecting Man's Apostacy; there are three Things worthy our Reflexion, viz.
1. THAT Man is certainly fallen from his Primitive Estate. That our First Parents did not continue in that Integrity, Perfection and Dignity in which they were placed at first, but cast themselves down from that height. We have the History of this at large, recorded in, Gen. 3. where we are informed, both that it was, and […] it was. And indeed there needs no more to prove the Fall of Mankind, or that Man is by Nature in a State of Apostasy, than to consider what he once was, and what he now is; whether we look upon his Endowments, or his Privileges which he was at first invested withal, and see how all these are now g•ne, & exchanged for Misery, it speaks plainly that he is Fallen; if his Estate were such as it hath been already described to us, there is none of that now abiding: Once he was able to Serve God, now he cannot; Once he knew Him, and could choose him for his Portion, now he is ignorant of Him, and bids Him depart from him: Once he was Immortal, in Health and Favour, all the Creatures served him, and there was nothing to molest him; but now he is a Dying Creature, and every thing gives him Trouble and Sorrow: And if this be not a Fall, what can be so? But,