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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. THAT every one brings this Sin with him into the world. This defilement cleaves to all men, and there are none born without it. Hence that character of man by nature, Psal. 58.3 The wicked are estranged from the which, they go astray ass••n as they be born, speaking lies. This is the carnal mind which is enmity against the law of God, Rom. 8.7. And though Children cannot show it before, yet as soon as ever they have any use of their rational powers, they make plain discoveries of it.
2. THAT this was not the condition of man's nature at the first. Man was not made in such a constitution, he was not so as he came out of God's hands in Creation; his primitive stare was a sinless state. Eccl. 7.29. It had been inconsistent with God's wisdom to have made him thus, since he was made to glorify God, in obedience to His command, for which he had been incapable if he had been made with this defilement cleaving to him; for it is […] who cannot serve […] for […] is […], […] year […].
2. THAT this was not the condition of man's nature at the first. Man was not made in such a constitution, he was not so as he came out of God's hands in Creation; his primitive stare was a sinless state. Eccl. 7.29. It had been inconsistent with God's wisdom to have made him thus, since he was made to glorify God, in obedience to His command, for which he had been incapable if he had been made with this defilement cleaving to him; for it is 〈…〉 who cannot serve 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 is 〈…〉, year .