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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 51 (Question 13 cont.)
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(5.) HENCE the Law was an occasion of the fall, only as man opposeth himself to it, otherwise it had never procured it a mighty Rock dasheth in pieces a stately Ship that runs it self upon it; an hard floor shivers a glass that falls upon it. The rock had done the ship no harm, if it had stood clear of it; the glass might have remained whole for all the floor, if it had not fallen upon it. The Law had let man alone, if he had not run himself against it by opposing it; hereby it makes him a sinner which otherwise he had not been.
(6.) HENCE man's Apostasy was no way necessitated by the nature of the Law which was given him. The rock which the steersman foolishly runs against, may be a sea mark, to guide him to shape a right course to his haven; his own folly procures him a shipwreck, by it. To be sure the glorious law of God, wa a directory to man, to guide his course to the haven of everlasting blessedness, •e, by falling foul of it, was split, and disabled for ever reaching the harbour of felicity, and so the law which was of it self a savour of life, became a savour of death.
(6.) HENCE man's Apostacy was no way necessitated by the nature of the Law which was given him. The rock which the steersman foolishly runs against, may be a sea mark, to guide him to shape a right course to his haven; his own folly procures him a shipwrack, by it. To be sure the glorious law of God, wa a directory to man, to guide his course to the haven of everlasting blessedness, •e, by falling foul of it, was split, and disabled for ever reaching the harbour of felicity, and so the law which was of it self a savour of life, bacame a savour of death.