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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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5. THE first sin lard the foundation, for all the after sins commented in the to r•d, the me in as a punishment. The first transgression was not in itself a penalty; but it was the procuring cause of all the penalties which follow; for though every subsequent sin he also causal, and meritorious, yet that is commutative; but this was the leading meriting cause of all. Rom. 5.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death hath passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. That therefore Adam himself tell under the power and dominion of sin, immediately upon his earing the forbidden fruit, and that all his children, that derive from him successively, •ere in their natural state hold under sin, is not only consequent upon, but a penalty of the first transgression; and God hath for that righteously left the whole progeny to be carnal, and sold under sin.
5. THE first sin lard the foundation, for all the after sins commented in the to r•d, the me in as a punishment. The first transgression was not in itself a penalty; but it was the precuring cause of all the penalties which follow; for though every subsequent sin he also causal, and meritorious, yet that is commutative; but this was the leading meriting cause of all. Rom. 5.12. Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world, and death by sin: and so death hath passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. That therefore Adam himself tell under the power and dominion of sin, immediately upon his earing the forbidden fruit, and that all his children, that derive from him successively, •ere in their natural state hold under sin, is not only consequent upon, but a penalty of the first transgression; and God hath for that righteously left the whole progeny to be carnal, and sold under sin.