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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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II. OUR Communion with him. This follows upon union, as being the end of it. The sie•e being united to the stock, partakes of it's nature, and is like to thrive or wither with it. This communion with him, implies that they share with him in his Transgression, that they have a participation in that Sin. And how can it be otherwise? For if they were in him, and sinned in him, How then can they be other than sinners in him? Now this communion appears in two particulars 1. The imputation of Adam's Transgression to them. 2. A real communication of the Transgression and the consequents of it to them. We may take a short account of both of these.
II. OUR Communion with him. This follows upon union, as being the end of it. The sie•e being united to the stook, partakes of it's nature, and is like to thrive or wither with it. This communion with him, implies that they share with him in his Transgression, that they have a participation in that Sin. And how can it be otherwise? For if they were in him, and sinned in him, How then can they be other than sinners in him? Now this communion appears in two particulars 1. The imputation of Adam's Transgression to them. 2. A real communication of the Transgression and the consequents of it to them. We may take a short account of both of these.
1. CONCERNING the imputation of Adam's Transgression to them. It is that which makes that o•• li•gular act of Adam's disobedience, in eating of the forbidden fruit, according to the full merit of it, to become cars. Adam finned, and all finned in him, and so his […] charged to their account, and pat upon their score. We are all made deb•••s in Adam. We bear the guilt of his sin, and are bound to ••stain the penalty of it. Imputation signifies as much as the setting of a thing to such an ones score, and making of him a debtor for it. Phinehas his good act […] imputed, i. e. accounted to him as a righteous […]