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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 II. THIS will tell us that there is no sin, that can be of it's own nature little. The Papists tell us of trivial sins, that are next of kin to •o si•s; that are so small & trivial things, that it is an easy matter to obtain pardon for them. Yea practically; who is there that doth not show that he hardly regards some sins; can easily commit them, and is not much troubled for them? Well; we are here assured that there is no sin but is a crossing or thwarting of the holy law of God; it is therefore an act of disobedience to his command, a rising up against his authority. And remember what God judgeth of all sin, His law threatens death for every one. Ezek. 18.4. Th• soul that sin••th, it shall die. And surely that sin that a man must die not is not a little one; for there is no injustice with God: the sentence then is righteous; and let every Sinner think of it solemnly, and then call any sin little again, if he dares […] is true, firs ••ffer circumstantially, and in themselves; but there is in every sin a want of that […] God which we owe to him, and a […] ourselves against a holy •ea, and […] rule, which is given us to guide us i• […] great […] thereby an exposing of […] selves to […] ••st wrath of the Great God.
USE II. THIS will tell us that there is no sin, that can be of it's own nature little. The Papists tell us of trivial sins, that are next of kin to •o si•s; that are so small & trivial things, that it is an easy matter to obtain pardon for them. Yea practically; who is there that doth not shew that he hardly regards some sins; can easily commit them, and is not much troubled for them? Well; we are here assured that there is no sin but is a crossing or thwarting of the holy law of God; it is therefore an act of disobedience to his command, a rising up against his authority. And remember what God judgeth of all sin, His law threatens death for every one.