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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.) HENCE the blame of man's fall cannot be imputed to the decree; no• is the man blameless for it. And this will be evident. For, 1. THAT God should give man a law and bind him a•ter obedience to it on peril of death, and yet purpose that he should fall and dye, belongs to his supremely, and was according to his infinite wisdom, to lay a foundation for the coming of the Second Adam, and the advancing of his glory. So that there was no unrighteousness with God in this regard: as he made all for his own glory, so he may contrive, and design his own glory by them, as best pleaseth him. Rev. 4.11. And for thy pleasure they are, and were created. 2. THAT God did Adam […] wrong in g••ing […] such a […], and binding ••m under the pea• •ies of it, in case of disobedience. Adam was Gods creature, God had absolute domi•••• over him; he was made for an end, and […] have a rule to govern him to it: and the law which God gave him was suitable to •is nature, a law of li•e, adapted to his […] crea•ed abilities, good for him, and […] have led him to the fruition of the […] good i• he had complied with it. It […] therefore Adam's lawful duty to obey •is command, and God exacted of him no […] than what he might do without wronging of him, hence are those three titles p•t up•• the law, R•m, 7.1•. Wherefore the law is […] and the commandment holy, and just, and go•• •oly, as it directed man how to glorify […] as his last end; […] in the sanctions of it; good, as it poted […] in the way to […] blessedness. 3. THAT man's action by which e fell […] an […] obedience to the decree, but […] belin against the precept. Man could […] it in compliance with the decree, because […] did not know it; and if he had know […] was not his rule. God's decree is his […] rule of efficiency, but the command was […] rule of obedience,