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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 56 (Question 16)
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SERMON LVI.
QUESTION XVI. DID all Mankind fall in Adam's first Transgression? ANSWER. The Covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his Posterity, all mankind descending from him, by ordinary generation, finned in him, and sell with him in his first Transgression.
UNDER the former head we took notice of man's Apostasy as it referred to the first Transgression, which was personally committed by ou• first Parents: but tho' the Act terminated on them, yet not so the Guilt, nor the Pollution consequent upon it. We are therefore here led.
UNDER the former head we took notice of man's Apostacy as it referred to the first Transgression, which was personally committed by ou• first Parents: but tho' the Act terminated on them, yet not so the Guilt, nor the Pollution consequent upon it. We are therefore here led.
II. TO the consideration of the Propagation of the Transgression, which is asserted and described in this. In which there are Three things observable. 1. The ground or Reason of the Propagation, the Covenant being made. &c. i. e. he was treated with not on a personal, but a public account, or as a public Person. 2. The extent of this propagation, with the limitation of it, all mankind, &c. herein excepting he Son of God, in our nature, who descended from him after an extraordinary manner. 3. The effect it self, or nature of the propagation, finned in him, &c. i. e. became Sinners together with him, and fell under the threatening of Death, as well as he. In the opening of this Doctrine, I shall endeavour, with as much brevity as may consist with perspicuity to resolve these two Questions. 1. How the Transgression is propagated? 2. To Whom?