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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 54 (Question 14)
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SERMON LIV.
QUESTION XIV. WHAT is Sin? ANSWER. Sin is any want of Conformity to, or Transgression of the Law of GOD.
OUR Catechism, having taken notice of the woeful mischiefs, which man had do•e to himself by Sinning; throwing himself from, and so losing that good estate in which God made him at the first; commora•es upon this sad contemplation, and calls us to stand still and make enquiry, what Sin this is that hath done all this harm, and undo•e mankind? And it must needs be some fearful thing, which hath produced so fearful an effect. We are here therefore invited to take notice of Sin.
OUR Catechism, having taken notice of the woful mischiefs, which man had do•e to himself by Sinning; throwing himself from, and so losing that good estate in which God made him at the first; commora•es upon this sad contemplation, and calls us to stand still and make enquiry, what Sin this is that hath done all this harm, and undo•e mankind? And it must needs be some fearful thing, which hath produced so fearful an effect. We are here therefore invited to take notice of Sin.