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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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THE First Command was broken, by his ambition to be in God's place; his slighting the Divine Sovereignty; his seeking his happiness somewhere else, and not in God. The Second, in his violating of the divine Institution, this Tree being a Sacrament, and by his abstinence he was to ratify the Covenant, which he thus brake. The Third, by lightly esteeming of God's Name and Word, His Promise and Threatening, he renounced his reverence; he also brake his vow, and covenant-promise to God, for an •ath of God was on him in the Covenant. The Fourth, in that when he ought to have been preparing for the Sabbath, (it being supposed that he did this on the sixth day in the afternoon,) he utterly disabled himself for ever keeping a Sabbath aright. Again, the Fifth, in that he had no more honourable esteem for man, and the whole race of mankind, (whom he knew were to stand and fall with him,) than to destroy them all for the satisfaction of his inordinate desire: and herein also he sinned against them, as they were his children, losing of his parental bowels of affection to them. The Sixth, in that he hereby murdered himself, and all his posterity, bringing death, spiritual, temporal and eternal on all mankind. Rom. […]. 12. And it was the most cruel murder that ever was committed: he had all necks on the block and our them off at a blow. He ruined all Bodies and Souls together. 1 Cor. 15.22. In Adam all die. The Seventh, by luxury, indulging his appetite, and feeding his lust, and by a vile uxoriousness, in rather hearkening to his deceived wife, and to her cruel flatterings, than to God himself, and his awful comminations. The Eighth, in eating the forbidden fruit; God had kept this from him by a lawful interdiction, He had by his ⟨p. 194⟩positive declared will, fenced that Tree out of Adams property, and he melodiously meddled with it. The N•nt•, by his unbelief of Gods threatenings, and taking a false testimony from the Devil: for he that believes a false report, and practiseth upon it, as well breaks this command as he that raiseth it. T•e […], in giving scope to his concupiscence, to lust for that which it was not lawful for him to have, and therefore he ought not to have cove•ed it; longing to be ingering of that which God had charged him not to touch. Thus was every part of God's Law despised by him.