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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 57 (Question 16 cont.)
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SERMON LVII.
2. CONCERNING the real communication of the Transgression; the consequents of it, to them. As we all sinned in him, so we fell with him. And this also ariseth from our union to him. Hence all that befell the first Adam, upon his violating the Covenant made with him, is fallen upon all his Posterity. Because he covenanted for them, as well as for himself. Now the unhappy things which Adam hath communicated to his children, and which they all labour under, are his Guilt and his Punishment, they have communion with him in both these, and see the direful effects of them. I shall have occasion to speak of both of these more largely under some following Questions. Here only as they derive from our first Parents unto us,
2. CONCERNING the real communication of the Transgression; the consequents of it, to them. As we all sinned in him, so we fell with him. And this also ariseth from our union to him. Hence all that befell the first Adam, upon his violating the Covenant made with him, is fallen upon all his Posterity. Because he covenanted for them, as well as for himself. Now the unhappy things which Adam hath communicated to his children, and which they all labour under, are his Guilt and his Punishment, they have communion with him in both these, and seel the direful effects of them. I shall have occasion to speak of both of these more largely under some following Questions. Here only as they derive from our first Parents unto us,