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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 59 (Question 18)
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(1.) GUILT is a relation which the person bears to the law. It belongs to the head of relation; we therefore observed, that it always supposeth a law, and a duty of obedience lying upon the man unto the law. Now all mankind are related to the law, either […] keepers or breakers of it: and this late of respect is that from whence guilt doth p•• ceed. So that as soon as ever the man h••• done ought that is against the law, he is immediately guilty, whether any process be made against him or no; because he hath this armed the law against himself. Hence that, Mat. 5.22. But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall […] in danger of the judgment. The same word with that, Mat. 26.66. rendered Guilty.
(1.) GUILT is a relation which the person bears to the law. It belongs to the head of relation; we therefore observed, that it always supposeth a law, and a duty of obedience lying upon the man unto the law. Now all mankind are related to the law, either 〈…〉 keepers or breakers of it: and this late of respect is that from whence guilt doth p•• ceed. So that as soon as ever the man h••• done ought that is against the law, he is immediately guilty, whether any process be made against him or no; because he hath this armed the law against himself. Hence that, Mat. 5.22. But I say unto you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall 〈…〉 in danger of the judgment. The same word with that, Mat. 26.66. rendred Guilty.