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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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II. T•• relation that Sin bears to this Law. We read in, 1. Joh. 3.4. Whosoever committed sin, […] also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. The word, Transgression, according to the strict meaning, and vulgar acceptation of it, is short of expressing the full sense of the Greek word that is here used. The word Anomi•, signifies a missing the law or rule, yea every missing of it: and, if so we understand the word, Transgression, it comprehends the substance of what is intended. The English of the word is, a being without l•te. Sin then is a being or doing besides the rule: it is called a departing, Dan. 9.11. Now this is expressed in the Answer, both in the defect, and the excess the forever whereof relates to the sins of emission, the latter to those of commission. For our better ⟨p. 189⟩and more distinct u•ders•an•••g of the nature of Sin under these express•••s ••serve these things.
II. T•• relation that Sin bears to this Law. We read in, 1. Joh. 3.4. Whosoever committed sin, 〈…〉 also the law: for sin is the trangression of the law. The word, Transgression, according to the strict meaning, and vulgar acceptation of it, is short of expressing the full sense of the Greek word that is here used. The word Anomi•, signifies a missing the law or rule, yea every missing of it: and, if so we understand the word, Transgression, it comprehends the substance of what is intended. The English of the word is, a being without l•te. Sin then is a being or doing besides the rule: it is called a departing,