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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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(1.) A sin of emission is a want of actual conformity to the low of God: When men neglect, or do not, that which God requires of them by his precept. Whatsoever God bids us to do, we are under a m•ral obligation to do it, and we bring a curse upon our selves by neglecting. Gal. 2.10. Caused is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the late t• do them. And there is as real sin in not doing what God commands us, as there is in doing of that which he hath forbidden us; and this is actual sin; because though as to the performance it self, there is rather a not acting, yet there is always an act of the will consenting to such a neglect; whether it be through sinful ignorance; or more high handed rebellion. Now this omission respects either, 1. THE Heart: When there is not an inward approbation of, and love to the law of God, he cannot receive it. 1. Cor. 2.14. But the natural man ••ceiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him: neither as be know them, because they are spiritually discerned. The command doth not please men, they do not see that beauty, excellency, desirableness in it, which it deserves to be acknowledged for, and therefore cannot take delight in •t. Rom. 7.22. they look not upon it as a rule of life. 2. THE Life: When men do not their duty which li•• upon them, either unto God or unto men; they do not perform the will of God. Though men do nothing, yet they sin because they are bound to do by precept; a•d therefore God ostent•nes, in his word, threatens men for not doing. Many are apt to think, it they sit still and I trend from actg they are o te surer side; but this is a great mistake. Why is God's juy threatened to be pour out upon thse that […] not upon his nae