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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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1. THE •••st Adam hath really communicated Sin to all his ••sterity. And that not m•••ly by imputation, but by derivation too. Sin (as we may hereafter consider.) is either original or ••a••. Adam. fin is nothing else but the working, and breaking out of original fin, and no man derives this from Adam immediately, but from his own depraved nature. Original sin is the moral d•nl•m•nt that hath corrupted man's nature, whereby he is not only inclined but necessitated to fin. Now this is that which Adam hath derived from himself to all men. The way and manner of it's communication is one of the deepen and most difficult points in Divinity, and calls for great sobriety in the consideration of it. There are two things here that would offer themselves to our contemplation; viz. the Physical way or manner of it's derivation, and the Moral grounds of it.
1. THE •••st Adam hath really communicated Sin to all his ••sterity. And that not m•••ly by imputation, but by derivation too. Sin (as we may hereafter consider.) is either original or ••a••. Adam. fin is nothing else but the working, and breaking out of original fin, and no man derives this from Adam immediately, but from his own depraved nature. Original sin is the moral d•nl•m•nt that hath corrupted man's nature, whereby he is not only encli•ed but necessitated to fin. Now this is that which Adam hath derived from himself to all men. The way and manner of it's communication is one of the deepen and most difficult points in Divinity, and calls for great sobriety in the consideration of it. There are two things here that would offer themselves to our contemplation; viz. the Physical way or manner of it's derivation, and the Moral grounds of it.