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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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USE I. SEE here, That the circumstances attending it […] greater or less. The t•ing its e•• barely considered, may seem small; but when we have looked upon it with all its antecedents, and concomitants, it will be made formidably great. And the want of this is the great reason, why the sinfulness of Sin, is so little understood by the most of the children of men: it therefore tells […] how we ought to think of it.
USE I. SEE here, That the circumstances attending it 〈…〉 greater or less. The t•ing its e•• barely considered, may seem small; but when we have looked upon it with all its antecedents, and concommitants, it will be made formidably great. And the want of this is the great reason, why the sinfulness of Sin, is so little understood by the most of the children of men: it therefore tells 〈…〉 how we ought to think of it.
USE II. S•E bore just it was with God […] punish t••s Sin with so great a punishment […] Death. God hath not out-done in his severity against it. Call •ver what hath been discovered in the bowels of this Sin, and ju••• according to reason, whether any Death be too much for such a Creature to undergo.
USE II. S•E bore just it was with God 〈…〉 punish t••s Sin with so great a punishment 〈…〉 Death. God hath not out-done in his severity against it. Call •ver what hath been disevered in the bowels of this Sin, and ju according to reason, whether any Death be too much for such a Creature to undergo.