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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 58 (Question 17)
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3. THE subject of it is, a transgress••. Though punishment terminate upon the person, who is the sufferer in […], yet it always refers to the fact for which it is inflicted; it therefore ever presumes two things. (I.) That there•• a […] with •uth ••s•n•tion put to••, unto w•ith be owes su•••io•. AIR punishment must be regular; •o•e can be liable to it, but one that is under some law, or•r••e: and that which makes •••m so is, because there is a pen•ley added to the precept of the law, by which it is ratified itch orgy to remunerative justice to punish; and tha• must be referred to a threatening in which it is contained. —(2.) THAT be ••rb some •ay broken that law, and so brought himself under that sanction. •or the threatening o• a law cannot justly hu•t him, who doth his duty, and doth not tran••gres•• it. 1 Tim. 1.9. knowing this, that the […] is not made for a righteous man, but for the l••o•• •ose and disobedient, orhe ungodly […] for sinners, for unholy and profane; for murderers of sabres and murderers of mothers, for […]. Now by thus doing, he comes to bar the denomination of a transgressor; and because; he is so, he may be punished.