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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 58 (Question 17)
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1. THAT the low given to men at first […] a ruin if •••ive Justice between God and […] As God is inti••e•y just in Himself, sole would declare it in his works; and to••• end he gave man a rule, according to w•••• he was to walk, and by which he was […] judged: and hence there were reward […] punishments annexed to it. By this […] God intended to manifest Himself to be […] reous, in His proceeding with man upon […] it was therefore just in its self, and God […] appant so in doing according to it. 2. THAT God, to ma•e this rule sure […] viola•••, put it into a Covenant. That these […] •ant of Grace is called, a new covenant, […] that there was an old one, antecedent […] and that was a covenant of works. This in•• was pron••lgated on mount S•n•i, Exod, […] but that was not the first edition of it; […] made with our first Parents, as ••th b••• […] fore proved. •ow in a covenant both […] stand firmly bound upon articles; as th•••• man was obliged to his obedience, so God •• liged Himself to reward him with life […] disobeyed, and punish him with death i••• disobeyed: and that is plain in, G•n. […] for if the word be gone on• of His mouth […] will stand to it; and it is of a threa••• that there is such a passage, 1 Sam. 15 […] And also the strength of Israel will not li••, […] repent: for be is not a man that be should re 3. THAT mankind are by the apostasy br under the threatening. This also hath […] made to appear. And now he must needs […] either in himself, or surety. Though God, be […] lordship, could have pardoned him, yet by […] covenant He cannot unless his sin be punish in one that is accepted in his room. So that not only the holiness of God stands engaged