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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 50 (Question 13)
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Man in his Creation was like a fair House, new built, fit to entertain the King of Glory, fit for a Temple for the Holy Ghost to dwell in; but now he is like an old House gone to decay, where, by the ruinous Heaps, we may guess what a famous Structure it once was, but is now nothing but Rubbish.
3. WE are to observe the Manner of his Fall; and that is expressed to be, by Sinning against God. I am not here to speak of the Nature of Sin in general, nor of the particular Transgression in which Man•s Apostasy consisted; for these things come afterwards: But only in General to take notice, that Man's Fall comes under a Moral Consideration; or that it was his Sin which threw him. And here take this General Conclusion;
3. WE are to observe the Manner of his Fall; and that is exprest to be, by Sinning against God. I am not here to speak of the Nature of Sin in general, nor of the particular Transgression in which Man•s Apostacy consisted; for these things come afterwards: But only in General to take notice, that Man's Fall comes under a Moral Consideration; or that it was his Sin which threw him. And here take this General Conclusion;
THAT Man lost his Primitive State by falling off from the Rule of special Government, under which he was placed, as it was a Rule of Life.