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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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HENCE, the decree of man'• […] m•ral influence at all […] blameable cause is a moral cause; […] work• […] ••••tation; but man had no […] from […] understood nothing […] it. Man in •inning acted without any […] ra•e regard to the decree, only conc••• himself with the command, against […] he entertained a prejudice, and accord••••• revolted from it: and this he did with […] liberty as if there had been no decree […] it, as will hereafter be discovered; so […] here is •o blame at all to be charged.
HENCE, the decree of man'• 〈…〉 m•ral influence at all 〈…〉 blameable cause is a moral cause; 〈…〉 work• 〈…〉 ••••tation; but man had no 〈…〉 from 〈…〉 understood nothing 〈…〉 it. Man in •inning acted without any 〈…〉 ra•e regard to the decree, only conc••• himself with the command, against 〈…〉 he entertained a prejudice, and accord••••• revolted from it: and this he did with 〈…〉 liberty as if there had been no decree 〈…〉 it, as will hereafter be discovered; so here is o blame at all to be charged.