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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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AND that we may take up the right notion of this, let these things be observed: (1.) THAT Man did not fall from the Rule of Creation or Conservation, but of Gubernation. Not of Creation, for he still remains one of God's Creatures, tho' he be a Disobedient one: He is not therefore cut off from that Duty and Homage, which as a Creature of God, he owes to his Maker: Nor doth God disown him from being one of His Creatures: Nay Sinners shall know it one Day to their Cost. Nor of Conservation; as God gave his Being to him, so He will sustain or uphold this Being of his according to the Rules o• Providence, and the Condition of such a Creature: As therefore he had an Immortal Being bestowed upon him, so God will preserve him in it to all Eternity, and not suffer him to be Annihilated, or lose that Being and Nature of his: He partakes in that Conservation here, during God's Pleasure, which extends to Good and Bad, Just and U••put, and he shall do so forever: But his Fall is properly from the Rule of special Government. (2.) THAT Man did not Fall absolutely from Gods Government. Nay he is as much under it as ever he was, notwithstanding his Apostasy; he is a Subject, tho' he be a Rebellious one: and God will have His Glory by him, whether he will or no, which is the design of His Government: God will in this respect hold him in Subjection, that if he will not pay Him the Homage which he owes Him, He will recover His Honour of him by force: If he will not Glorify Him, He will strain for it: If he will not do what a good Subject ought to do, he shall suffer what is an Offenders due: If he will not Serve at Liberty, he shall be held in Chains: God will drive him home to his Journey's end, & bring him to an Everlasting State, and that according to the Rule of special Government. Man can never wholly desert this Rule: but must stand related to one of the Conditions of it: Hence we read in Prov. 16.4. The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. (3.) THAT Man did not fall from the Obligation of Obedience, to the Rule of special Government. For notwithstanding the Fall, he is still held under the Dominion of the Rule, and the Conditions of it stand inviolable: He is held in passive Subjection to the Law, tho' he doth not actually conform unto it.
AND that we may take up the right notion of this, let these things be observed: (1.) THAT Man did not fall from the Rule of Creation or Conservation, but of Gubernation. Not of Creation, for he still remains one of God's Creatures, tho' he be a Disobedient one: He is not therefore cut off from that Duty and Homage, which as a Creature of God, he owes to his Maker: Nor doth God disown him from being one of His Creatures: Nay Sinners shall know it one Day to their Cost. Nor of Conservation; as God gave his Being to him, so He will sustain or uphold this Being of his according to the Rules o Providence, and the Condition of such a Creature: As therefore he had an Immortal Being bestowed upon him, so God will preserve him in it to all Eternity, and not suffer him to be Anniilated, or lose that Being and Nature of his: He partakes in that Conservation here, during God's Pleasure, which extends to Good and Bad, Just and Uput, and he shall do so forever: But his Fall is prprly from the Rule of special Government. (2.) THAT Man did not Fall absolutely from Gods Government. Nay he is as much under it as ever he was, notwithstanding his Apostacy; he is a Subject, tho' he be a Rebellious one: and God will have His Glory by him, whether he will or no, which is the design of His Government: God will in this respect hold him in Subjection, that if he will not pay Him the Homage which he owes Him, He will recover His Honour of him by force: If he will not Glorify Him, He will strein for it: If he will not do what a good Subject ought to do, he shall suffer what is an Offenders due: If he will not Serve at Liberty, he shall be held in Chains: God will drive him home to his Journey's end, & bring him to an Everlasting State, and that according to the Rule of special Government. Man can never wholly desert this Rule: but must stand related to one of the Conditions of it: Hence we read in