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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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and by the same reason that God may give men up to actual Sins, He may punish them with a sinful nature, upon the supposition of a guilt preceding, which all have contracted in Adam.
and by the same reason that God may give men up to actual Sins, He may punish them with a finful nature, upon the supposition of a guilt preceeding, which all have contracted in Adam.
2. ADAM hath also communicated Death to his Posterity. And indeed, this came in with the other, Rom. 5.12. Sin entered into the world, and Death by sin. And here I shall observe these things, 1. THAT Death was the very threatening of the first Covenant. Gen. 2.17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely dye. And this contains in it all temporal, spiritual, and eternal miseries. This was an Article on which man was treated by God, and therefore it was the wages which he was to expect in case of sinning. 2. THAT as soon as Adam had transer•ssed he sell under this Death. Hot only was he liable to it, but it seized him in the inchoations of it. The curse immediately took hold of him; He fell under the impressions of it; he sell under that mortality which was before suspended; the elements were cursed for his sake, terrors sell upon him, and he stood under the danger of hel••s destruction, and their was no apparent hope of his escape. 3. THAT he hath conveyed this Death down to his Posterity. Misery and mortality are now grown natural to mankind, and they are is sure of it as they are born, Job 14.1. M•n that is born of a woman, is of sew days, and full of trouble. And for this reason all are said to die in him,