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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 56 (Question 16)
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4. IT must therefore be by mediation of our next Parents what we are united unto Adam. For there is a line of Succession, and a connect on of one to another, by which, as in so ma•y links, we have a real adhesion to the first. Generations therefore have their succession. Ecel. 1.3. One generation passeth away, and another generation •••th […]
4. IT must therefore be by mediation of our next Parents what we are united• unto Adam. For there is a line of Succession, and a connect on of one to another, by which, as in so ma•y links, we have a real adhesion to the first. Generations therefore have their succession. Ecel. 1.3. One generation passeth away, and another generation •••th 〈…〉
5. HENCE natural Generation is the bond of our union with Adam. For, […] (1.) IT is by natural Generation that we have our inbeing in Adam. Before we had our actual existence, we were virtually in […] loins; as the effect is virtually in the cause. The […] is virtually in the bosh, before is so much as buds. Thus is Law said to pay tithes in Abraham, Heb. 7.9, •0. And when we actually be, we are actually in him. Act therefore are said to be of one blood, Act. 17• 2•. All are in him as every branch that springs out is in the tree••• ⟨p. 196⟩