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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 60 (Question 18 cont.)
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2. THE rectitude of man's nature, was an habitual conformity to the law of God. I mean the rule of special government, according to which he was to be judged and rewarded. When God made man, He knew what He made him for, and made him accordingly. He was to be a moral agent, and therefore had not only moral powers put into him, but also a disposition cleaving to them, whereby they were titted to act regularly: a natural bent and inclination in them to close with the rule, and a complete ability so to do: the bias of man's nature was set right; and this was truly his righteousness end holiness, which is therefore said to be renewed in convention, Eph. 4.24.
2. THE rectitude of man's nature, was an habitual conformity to the law of God. I mean the rule of special government, according to which he was to be judged and rewarded. When God made man, He knew what He made him for, and made him accordingly. He was to be a moral agent, and therefore had not only moral powers put into him, but also a disposition cleaving to them, whereby they were titted to act regularly: a natural bent and inclination in them to close with the rule, and a compleat ability so to do: the bias of man's nature was set right; and this was truly his righteousness end holiness, which is therefore said to be renewed in convention, Eph. 4.24.
3. HENCE by the ••••ssion of this rectitude and c•ntructing of the whereby habit, man's nature is swerved fr•• the law. This is a necessary inference, for, if man's nature were by that conformity adapted to the rule, whatsoever is in it defective therein, or repugnant thereto, must needs put him off from this rule; the loss of the habit, and the introduction of an opposite habit, makes a change in the nature, when the habit it self belongs to the nature of the thing. The man was made by rule, it then he became other than he was made, he ceaseth to be according to rule.