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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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2. WE may look upon the general Nature of the Apostasy of Man. It is in the Answer called, His falling from the Estate wherein he was Created, and that respects to •wo Things; 1. The State of Nature in which he was, and that was a State of Perfection, by virtue of the Image of God which was upon him. 2. The Covenant State which he bare, and that was in Relation to Happiness, as he was under a Covenant Promise of it, and stood fair for it: From both of these he is gone, and they are utterly lost, as will be particularly taken notice of under some of the following Answers.
2. WE may look upon the general Nature of the Apostacy of Man. It is in the Answer called, His falling from the Estate wherein he was Created, and that respects to •wo Things; 1. The State of Nature in which he was, and that was a State of Perfection, by vertue of the Image of God which was upon him. 2. The Covenant State which he bare, and that was in Relation to Happiness, as he was under a Covenant Promise of it, and stood fair for it: From both of these he is gone, and they are utterly lost, as will be particularly taken notice of under some of the following Answers.
MAN by the Fall lost himself; and there are two Words by which this Fall is expressed in the New Testament, which will give us light into the general Nature of it:
[1.] IT is called an Apostasy, Heb. 3.12 The Word properly signifies a standing off, and so properly expresseth the fallen State of Man: He was made to close with God, but now […] stood off from him, departed and separated himself; hence a sinful Man is said to be separated,