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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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1. TO apply these t••ngs to the present case. God then peniseth, when he executes His just wrath upon sinners, for their sins: this agrees in every par• to the foregoing notions. Here then observe,
1. TO apply these t••ngs to the present case. God then pen•seth, when he executes His just wrath upon sinners, for their sins: this agrees in every par• to the foregoing notions. Here then observe,
1. THAT the execution of punishment for sin, is God's proper work. Not that He doth not use second causes as His instrument in it; as civil rulers also have their executioners by whom they punish offenders; but it is not a punishment because they do it, but because authority appoints it. He therefore challeng••• it as His prerogative. H•b. 10.30. For […] know him that bath s••d, vengeance belongeth unto •e, I ••ll recom•ence, saith the Lord; •nd again, the Lord small judge his people. And when sinners are punished, they are said to fall into his b•nds, ver. 31. For this reason He is called a consuming sire, Heb 1•. ••s. the Psalmist therefore appropriates it to Him, Psal. 94.1. O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thy self. And none may challenge to do it but He, or by His order. Though because He useth all creatures to do His will by them, the same evil which is done to any by instruments may be both an injury done them, in respect of these, because they had no precept for it; and yet a punishment relating to God, in whose ands they are but the rod of his wrath. Isal. 10.5. 2. THAT God then properly punisheth sinners, when He brings his wrath upon them for sin. That God is displeased at sin, and sinners for it, belong to his holiness; when he reveals his wrath, in the works of his Providence, against men, then He punisheth them. This therefore is in Scripture called his anger, and wrath and fury: so that if God afflict any, yet if it be not in anger, […] i not punishment; but it there be of that in it, whether it e of a father or a judge it is so. Hence that expression in, Deut, 29.20. Then the anger of the Lord, and […] jeasie shall smoke against the men, and all the curses […] are written in this book, shall a upon m. And Psal 0.7. […] are sumed by thine anger, and by thy […] we are troubled. And, 79.5. H ag Lord […] thou be gry for ever? shall thy sclusy […] like re? 3. THAT this wrath of God against s is just. All mankind owe subjection to God, […] they are his creatures,