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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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USE I. LEARN hence what need there is of Preaching the Law, if we desire that Sinners should be brought to a sight of their sin. Some there be who are all for Gospel preaching, as they please to call it; he nothing but comforts and consolations by Jesus Christ, and they like not any other Preachers but such. But we must remember that consolation is •ffe•ed too soon to Men, if it come before sin is discovered to them. Jesus Christ came to save his People from their sins; and in order to their coming to Him, so as to partake in his Salvation, it is require •at they be convinced of their sin, and t•••r misery by it, that so they may seek unto Him for this deliverance: for ••••les men are whole they see not their need of the physician. Now it is by the Law that we come to the knowledge of Sin. Rom. 7.7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not know lost, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet. It is true, the law ought always to be dispensed with respect to the Mediator, else it is only to drive men to desperation; but it is be neglected, and not taught at all, that will be to let men alone in their carnal security, and suffer them to live altogether without apprehending their need of a Saviour.
USE I. LEARN hence what need there is of Preaching the Law, if we desire that Sinners should be brought to a sight of their sin. Some there be who are all for Gospel preaching, as they please to call it; he nothing but comforts and consolations by Jesus Christ, and they like not any other Preachers but such. But we must remember that consolation is •ffe•ed too soon to Men, if it come before sin is discovered to them. Jesus Christ came to save his People from their sins; and in order to their coming to Him, so as to partake in his Salvation, it is require •at they be convinced of their sin, and t•••r misery by it, that so they may seek unto Him for this deliverance: for ••••les men are whole they see not their need of the physitian. Now it is by the Law that we come to the knowledge of Sin.