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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 53 (Question 13 cont.)
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(4.) THOUGH Adam ••de free will to good, yet be was but changeably good. Absolute immutability is a pr••egative of God, and belongs to him alone. Mal. 3.6. I am the Lord, Liberty not. All created perfections, though rever so eminent in themselves, yet have this defect attending of them, that in themselves they may be l•st. Adam was one thing, and his Rule another; as they might meet, s• they might part. And this mutability in a moral agent is a ground of the possibility of it's fa•ing, and so forfeiting all it's perfections.
(4.) THOUGH Adam ••de free will to good, yet be was but changeably good. Absolute immutability is a pr••egative of God, and belongs to him alone. Mal. 3.6. I am the Lord, Liberty not. All created persections, though rever so eminent in themselves, yet have this defect attending of them, that in themselves they may be l•st. Adam was one thing, and his Rule another; as they might meet, s• they might part. And this mutability in a moral agent is a ground of the possibility of it's fa•ing, and so forfeiting all it's perfections.
(5.) GOD, not intending to advance his glory, in man's happiness, by a Covenant of Works, but of Grace, did not see meet to confirm Adam in his primitive state. There is a secondary immutability, if we may so call it, which the creature is capable of, viz. of being confirmed, so as never actually to regush its […] this the blessed Angels enjoy, and this all Believers in Christ partake in, and are therefore said to have the immortal seed in them: but this God would […] cter on Adam, but left him to the trial of his habitual grace; and this was arbitrary, altogether depending on God's good pleasure.