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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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II. LET me now add a few words to vindicate the distribution here given of the punishment of sin. The parts of it are here signi•ed to be sin and misery. Two things are objected against it, 1. That sin is the m•riter: us […] procuring cause of all misery, and that is an effect morally flowing from sin; how then can it be one part of the punishment? 2. That God is the number of the punishment which is in•••••• on sinners, as is confessed on all hands: and how then can sin be reckoned to be a punishment, without making Him the author of it, which is a reproach to Him, and reflection on His holiness? For the removal of these •••kes, and establishment of the truth, let those things be observed.
II. LET me now add a few words to vindicate the distribution here given of the punishment of sin. The parts of it are here signi•ed to be sin and misery. Two things are objected against it, 1. That sin is the m•riter: us 〈…〉 precuring cause of all misery, and that is an effect morally flowing from sin; how then can it be one part of the punishment? 2. That God is the number of the punishment which is in•••••• on sinners, as is confessed on all hands: and how then can sin be reckoned to be a punishment, without making Him the author of it, which is a reproach to Him, and reflection on His holiness? For the removal of these •••kes, and establishment of the truth, let those things be observed.
1. THAT us God is holy in His Being, so be •••phys His holiness in all His works of •thei•••y. That is a truth for ever to be acknowledged,