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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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(7.) HENCE the Law was altogether blameless. Though the command prove death consequentially, yet it was ordained for life, and hence it is holy, Rom. 7.10. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found […] death. 'Tis the commendation […] to shiver in pieces the vess•• […] against it, and falls foul of it, […] of the law, to […] the man that […] ⟨p. 178⟩himself upon it. It Adam […] so ••ld as to ••••le with the command, it is at he should bear the marks a•d b••••e• up•• h••• as tokens of his pre•ump••o•: and he must the […] himself for all the mischief […] •riseth to him from it.
(7.) HENCE the Law was altogether blameless. Though the command prove death consequentially, yet it was ordained for life, and hence it is holy, Rom. 7.10. And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found 〈…〉 death. 'Tis the commendation 〈…〉 to shiver in pieces the vess•• 〈…〉 against it, and falls foul of it, 〈…〉 of the law, to 〈…〉 the man that 〈…〉 ⟨p. 178⟩himself upon it. It Adam so ld as to le with the commad, it is at he should bear the marks ad be up h as tokes of his preumpo: and he must the himself for all the mischief riseth to him from it.