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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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HENCE, Th•• he is •ul•en from all power and […] of ••ey•ng and being Ha•py by it, is a penalty • that Disobedience. His loss o• his power consists in the loss of the Sanctification which he at first had habitually in him, and this was part of the Death which he procured to himself by his Sin. How far th•re was a Physical influence into it by the act of Disobedience, is matter of dispute, but this Moral influence it certainly had; and whether Man did actually destroy all his Grace at once, by the Transgression, it is certain that he did it Meritoriously, and it all went away upon it, by Gods righteous Judgment; so that he left no good thing remaining in him, that was Theologica•ly so; and this was the complement of his Fall, now his Primitive State was altogether gone, and the Law it self according to the ••st constitution of it, can no longer give him Life, Gal. 3.21. It the law them against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. And this may suffice to be spoken of the Fall of Man in general.
HENCE, Th•• he is •ul•en from all power and 〈…〉 of ••ey•ng and being Ha•py by it, is a penalty • that Disobedience. His loss o• his power consists in the loss of the Sanctification which he at first had habitually in him, and this was part of the Death which he procured to himself by his Sin. How far thre was a Physical influence into it by the act of Disobedience, is matter of dispute, but this Moral influence it certainly had; and whether Man did actually destroy all his Grace at once, by the Transgression, it is certain that he did it Meritoriously, and it all went away upon it, by Gods righteous Judgment; so that he left no good thing remaining in him, that was Theologicaly so; and this was the complement of his Fall, now his Primitive State was altogether gone, and the Law it self according to the st constitution of it, can no longer give him Life,