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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 this Sin was against the very Sacrament, or Test that was given them. This t•ee was a Sacrament of death; it was that which God gave to Adam to try his love […] him by; it was a Seal of the Covenant, and that was herein violated. Now the Seal in that which ratifies, either the promise, of the threatening. He did, therefore, by this act, as it were, tear off the Seal from the Covenant, that was past between God and him The trial indeed was but small, yet the Dependencies on it were very great; his everlasting happiness or misery were to turn upon it. Now the smaller such a Trial is, the more heinous is the fin and folly in violating it. If man might have saved his life, and obtained his happiness, by abstaining from […] Apple, and he would not do that for it, how justly doth he dye? and yet so it was. If in this one little thing, he had been true to God, he had never been lost. The smaller the matter was, the greater was the contempt; and thereupon the Sin the more inexcusable. See how they plead, 1 Kin. 5.13. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid that […] some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to that, wash and be clean?
1 THAT this Sin was against the very Sacrament, or Test that was given them. This t•ee was a Sacrament of death; it was that which God gave to Adam to try his love 〈…〉 him by; it was a Seal of the Covenant, and that was herein violated. Now the Seal in that which ratifies, either the promise, of the threatning. He did, therefore, by this act, as it were, tear off the Seal from the Covenant, that was past between God and him The trial indeed was but small, yet the Dependencies on it were very great; his everlasting happiness or misery were to turn upon it. Now the smaller such a Trial is, the more heinous is the fin and folly in violating it. If man might have saved his life, and obtained his happiness, by abstaining from 〈…〉 Apple, and he would not do that for it, how justly doth he dye? and yet so it was. If in this one little thing, he had been true to God, he had never been lost. The smaller the matter was, the greater was the contempt; and thereupon the Sin the more inexcusable. See how they plead,