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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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(4.) YET if there had been no law, Adam had not sinned. It was therefore so an occasion of his sinning. Rom. 4.15. For where no law is there is no transgression. Adams act in eating, &c. had been no sin, if there had not been a law prohibiting it; if man's actions were under no rule, he could not do amiss▪ all would be alike, and the moral difference between good and evil would not have been; where there is no way, there can be no going out of the way. Hence we read in Rom. 7.5. For when we were in the flesh, the moti••• of sins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. i. e. both discovered, and excited occasionally. Adam found f••lt which the Law, and so he stumbled […] it, and that gave him a fall; the law […] the thing, and therefore when it is done, the law makes it a sin by this prohibi•••• which else it had not been.
(4.) YET if there had been no law, Adam had not sinned. It was therefore so an occasion of his sinning. Rom. 4.15. For where no law is there is no transgression. Adams act in eating, &c. had been no sin, if there had not been a law prohibiting it; if man's actions were under no rule, he could not do amiss▪ all would be alike, and the moral difference between good and evil would not have been; where there is no way, there can be no going out of the way. Hence we read in Rom. 7.5. For when we were in the flesh, the moti••• of sins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. i. e. both discovered, and excited occasionally. Adam found f••lt which the Law, and so he stumbled 〈…〉 it, and that gave him a fall; the law 〈…〉 the thing, and therefore when it is done, the law makes it a sin by this prohibi which else it had not been.