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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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Q. 2. WHEREIN the greatness of this Sin discovers it self?
A. THERE is a •reat deal of reason to be inquisitive into this; because the foundation of the misery of all the children of men was laid in it. Rom. 5.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. And vain men are apt to think it a poor basis of so fearful a Tragedy: Men are ready to say, what must the eating of an Apple be so heinous a thing, as to be made the undoing; Adam and all his Posterity, and the leading […] to bring so many millions into the •••tomless pit, and everlasting burnings? But it is for want of a right understanding of the matter. There are then several things, that may here be offered […] our consideration, to show us the heino•••• of this crime.
A. THERE is a •reat deal of reason to be inquisitive into this; because the foundation of the misery of all the children of men was laid in it. Rom. 5.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. And vain men are apt to think it a poor basis of so fearful a Tragedy: Men are ready to say, what must the eating of an Apple be so heinous a thing, as to be made the undoing; Adam and all his Posterity, and the leading 〈…〉 to bring so many millions into the •••tomless pit, and everlasting burnings? But it is for want of a right understanding of the matter. There are then several things, that may here be offered 〈…〉 our consideration, to shew us the heino•••• of this crime.