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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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Q. 1. HOW the Transgression is propaga•?
A. THERE are two thing• ••ll here […] under consideration, and serve to make it clear. 1. Our union to the first Adam. 2. Our communion with him in his Transgression. […] us take the account of each of these.
A. THERE are two thing• ••ll here 〈…〉 under consideration, and serve to make it clear. 1. Our union to the first Adam. 2. Our communion with him in his Transgression. 〈…〉 us take the account of each of these.
1. OUR union to the first Adam. This is necessarily the foundation on which this affair depends. Adam's Sin is extended […] none but his posterity. If all the world […] not been some way, in him, they could […] have been made Sinners by him; and if th•y had not so been, they could never have […] subjected to Sin and Death, on his account. Touching this Union, we may enquire […] the nature of it. This union is the being of all mankind in Adam, descending from him li••••• as from the first, by mediation of their […] Parents. We may discover the nature of this union in the following Propositions.
1. OUR union to the first Adam. This is necessarily the foundation on which this affair depends. Adam's Sin is extended 〈…〉 none but his posterity. If all the world not been some way, in him, they could have been made Sinners by him; and if thy had not so been, they could never have subjected to Sin and Death, on his account. Touching this Union, we may enquire the nature of it. This union is the being of all mankind in Adam, descending from him li as from the first, by mediation of their Parents. We may discover the nature of this union in the following Propositions.