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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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2. BECAUSE all men dye by virtues of this Sin. That death hath seized mankind is evident. Now that which brought it in, and gave it it's extent, is ascribed hither, Rom. 5.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death hath posed upon all men, for that all have sinned. He only that eat the forbidden fruit was by law to dye, Gen. 2.17. For in the day that thou ••est thereof, thou shalt surely dye. But it is certain that all die, therefore all have eaten of it, virtually.
2. BECAUSE all men dye by vertus of this Sin. That death hath seized mankind is evident. Now that which brought it in, and gave it it's extent, is ascribed hither, Rom. 5.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world, and death by sin: and so death hath posed upon all men, for that all have sinned. He only that eat the forbidden fruit was by law to dye, Gen. 2.17. For in the day that thou ••est thereof, thou soalt surely dye. But it is certain that all die, therefore all have eaten of it, vertually.
3. BECAUSE they are reckoned to have sinned, who never personally acted any sin. The term, all, Rom. 5.12. compriseth under it, Children in their infancy, as well as others. And it is sure, that they cannot sin actually: this must therefore be accounted to them by imputation, and as they relate to the first Adam.
3. BECAUSE they are reckoned to have sinned, who never personally acted any sin. The term, all,