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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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4. DIVINES well observe, That Adam in this one act, trod under foot, and despised all God's attributes, and commands. And if so, then it engrossed all Sin in it. Let us make […] g•••ce upon it. (1.) HE despised all God's glorious and precious Attributes. God had engaged Himself to him, in all his manifested perfections, to be his portion, if he would obey Him; but if •e sat him at nought, and chose rather to have his portion in himself, and the world; nay to expect his fe••city rather from an apple than God, God had engaged all these perfections against him, if he should transgress. They all stood armed against him in the threatening; but he regarded them not, but run upon the very bosses of his buckler; though he had all the reason to conclude that by this one act of his, he should incense the Omnipotency, Infiniteness, Unchangeableness, Eternity, Holiness, Justice and Truth of God against him, yet in the very face of all these, he adventures to put all to the hazard; entered the list, and threw out the gantlet to the most High, and practically said, that he cared not to have these Attributes his friends, and was not afraid to make them his enemies. (2.) HE tr•• •nd•rs••• […] vio••••d the whole la••, and commands of God. It is tr••, there is a ••llateral breaking of all, in the transgressing of one. Jam. 2.10. For w•••••ver shall keep the […] l•••, and yet ••fend in one point, he is guilty of all. It is also evident, that he, who tips off the se•l of a Covenant, makes every article of it void at once; and so was this. But besides, there was a more direct and immediate violence offered to the particular precepts in the Decalogue; as some have remarked: And may be glanced at.