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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 54 (Question 14)
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When man had almost utterly lost his rule, God […] to of it […] the Scripture; where […] the law […], which was given to one People, and […], law which was accommodated i• civils, to a People under such a p•r•agogy, there is all to the law m•r••, which was more universal perpetual, and […]; of which our Saviour lays Mat 5.10, 11. T••• not that I am come […] verily I joy […] you, it […] from the law, […] be […]. And with respect to this publication […], is that in M•ch. 6.8. He hath […] what is good; and what […] my Gods. 7. […] goodness of this Law appears in the it […] of use. There was not only an equity i• it, obliging man to the obedience of it, and making him justly guilty in ca•• […]; but there was a goodness in it too, with respect to man, for whom it was appointed. And therefore that is one of the epithets which the Apostle put upon it, Rom. 7.12. The commandment is good. And the goodness of it for man, was herein to be see•, that he was directed by it in the way to live for ever, i. e. to be happy (Isal. […]. 2 Rom. 10. J•w 1.20.) It was necessary that man should have a law to frame his life by, without it he could not be happy; he had been in the dath, without light: in a wilderness without a way, and so must have been lost. Now the scope of the rule was to point man to blessedness; to please God, and enjoy his savour, which is his life. 8. MAN's Obedience properly consisted in his […] to the […]. When in all things be answered it, then was be to be esteemed obedient unto God, then, and only then, when he was just as broad in his being and actions as the law; when being laid by it, he neither wont beyond it, nor tell short of it, Isal 5••. according to this therefore is man to be measured in a moral consideration. And this leads us to the second thing offered us in the answer under consideration, viz.