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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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•••d where it is wanting, all that is done fl•ws from the corruption which is in man, which is enmity to the law of God, and is not, cannot be subject. Rom. 8.7. 3. IN the end that it is done for. The law of God is to direct man to his last end […] it ⟨p. 190⟩therefore requires man to level his actions right, and let him do never so plausibly, yet it be have a si••ter a•• in what he doth, he falls soul with the command, and comes under the guilt transgressing it. That is a precept of universal influence. 1 Cor. 10.21. Whether therefore ye eat or drinker whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. John therefore sinned in doing God's command, though he did it with a great deal of zeal, because he aimed at his own politic ends; and not at the glorifying of God. And that is the fault God enargeth upon them about their fasting, Zuch. 7.5. When ye fasted and married in the fifth & seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all just unto me, even to me? Any action of ours, which ceaters short of God as the last end, is a Sin. And this may suffice for the nature of Sin in general.
•••d where it is wanting, all that is done fl•ws from the corruption which is in man, which is enmity to the law of God, and is not, cannot be subject. Rom. 8.7. 3. IN the end that it is done for. The law of God is to direct man to his last end 〈…〉 it ⟨p. 190⟩therefore requires man to level his actions right, and let him do never so plausibly, yet it be have a si••ter a•• in what he doth, he falls soul with the command, and comes under the guilt transgressing it. That is a precept of universal influence.