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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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6. THAT it was not the some individual our corruption of nature which Adam derived to […] but one like it. Adam's depravation was p•• sonal: The original Sin in one man is […] the original Sin in another, though it be in all respects of the same nature or kind. Adam is therefore said to convey his image & likeness to his Children, Gen. 5.3. He began son in his own image. And on this acco••• we are said to have born his image, 1 Cor. 1• 49. And this is the substance of what […] may gather from the word of God on this account.
6. THAT it was not the some individnol our coruption of nature which Adam derived to 〈…〉 but one like it. Adam's depravation was p•• sonal: The original Sin in one man is 〈…〉 the original Sin in another, though it be in all respects of the same nature or kind. Adam is therefore said to convey his image & likeness to his Children, Gen. 5.3. He began son in his own image. And on this acco••• we are said to have born his image, 1 Cor. 1• 49. And this is the substance of what 〈…〉 may gather from the word of God on this account.
(2.) AS to the latter, or the Moral growth of it; it is more easy to conceive of, if me look upon this siatul state of men by nature to be a punishment of Adam's Transgression And therefore, though we cannot see how this is done, yet we may be assured that God is righteous in doing of it.