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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 51 (Question 13 cont.)
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1. THE blameless Causes are reckoned three; 1. The Law of the first Covenant. 2. The Decree of God concerning this Affair. 3. The Permissive Providence of God which was at work about it. What in•••ence these had into the Fall, and how far th• may be called Causes, I shall endeavour to discover distinctly.
1. CONCERNING the Law of God: we read, Rom. 4.15. The law worketh wrath. and 7.10, 12. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I fo•••d to be unto death. Was then that which is good, made death unto me? God forbid. But sin that it might appear sin, worketh death in me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Hence they say that the Law was a cause by accident of the fall; because if there had been none, man had not fallen. Others call it Cause sin• q•• no•, but I suppose it may be more properly called an Occasion then a Cause: to be […] whatsoever influence it had, it was altogether blameless, Rom. 7.12, 14. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. We may then gather up this matter in these Conclusions.
1. CONCERNING the Law of God: we read, Rom. 4.15. The law worketh wrath. and 7.10, 12. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I fo•••d to be unto death. Was then that which is good, made death unto me? God forbid. But sin that it might appear sin, worketh death in me by that which is good, that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. Hence they say that the Law was a cause by accident of the fall; because if there had been none, man had not fallen. Others call it Cause sin q no, but I suppose it may be more properly called an Occasion then a Cause: to be whatsoever influence it had, it was altogether blameless,