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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 55 (Question 15)
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1. THAT by the lat• of Creation there could […] been as •art in Adam's eating this fruit. Is the order of Creation, God made these things for the use of man, and he gave him the ••••tion over them. Man's bodily life was […] be sustained by things fitted for that end; and this fruit was so suited, it had no noxious quality in it, but had that nourishment, and pleasancy in it, that was adapted to man's appetite, and wholesome for him. Gen. 3.6. The tree was good for food. The act of eating is •••••al, and so lawful, yea necessary, and the fruit was convenient to the end of eating.
1. THAT by the lat• of Creation there could 〈…〉 been as •art in Adam's eating this fruit. Is the order of Creation, God made these things for the use of man, and he gave him the ••••tion over them. Man's bodily life was 〈…〉 be sustained by things fitted for that end; and this fruit was so suited, it had no noxious quality in it, but had that nourishment, and pleasancy in it, that was adapted to man's appetite, and wholsome for him. Gen. 3.6. The tree was good for food. The act of eating is •••••al, and so lawful, yea necessary, and the fruit was convenient to the end of eating.
2. THAT by the common law of special government, it had been lawful to eat this fruit as well as any other. By this common law, I mean the law of nature, which was engraves on the heart of man, consisting of all those rules, which directed him to righteousness and holiness; and were suited to his nature, and imprinted on his conscience. This told him that he was to make the glory of God his last end in all things; and to improve all the creatures that were put under him according to their nature and usefulness, for the advancement of this Glory by them. Now according to that light, man had reason to think, that he might glorify God, by a thankful eating of that fruit as well as any other; not could he have conscientiously abstained from it without superstition.