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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 60 (Question 18 cont.)
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V. THIS depravation of nature is universal. I am not now speaking of that universality which respects the whole kind; that hath been already treated of, but of that which extends to the whole man. And this may be observed in two things, 1. THE image of God is wholly lost. It is not only crazed, & weakened, as some would have it, but there is none of it remaining. As to what men call the natural image, and the moral external, I do not here speak; I know that man hath an understanding and will still, and affections, and conscience, and he hath a sort of government over the creatures: but his original sanctification is quite rooted out, and there are no remains of it in him. Paul is full […] this, Rom. 7.18. In me (that is in my flesh) ••••eth no good thing. There remains no future of true holiness upon any of his sa•••ies or members; he hath no spiritual discerning left in him of the things of God. 1 Cor. 2.14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto […] neither can be know them, because they are spiritually discerned. He is become brutish in this regard, he can understand rationally but not spiritually. He hath no freedom of will to that which is good, so as to make choice of it. The natural freedom of his will is not good, hence he hath a spontaneity in his elections, and his will is not forced, but he cannot choose the things of God: he hath no love of God left in him, he cannot go forth is his desires after him, as his chief good: he is darkness it self, and enmity it self, and what can be said more? 2. THOSE corrupt principles do fill the whole […]. They are not only in him, but they run through him, and wholly occupy him; he is a mere lump of opposition to God and his ways. For,
V. THIS depravation of nature is universal. I am not now speaking of that universality which respects the whole kind; that hath been already treated of, but of that which extends to the whole man. And this may be observed in two things, 1. THE image of God is wholly lost. It is not only crazed, & weakned, as some would have it, but there is none of it remaining. As to what men call the natural image, and the moral external, I do not here speak; I know that man hath an understanding and will still, and affections, and conscience, and he hath a sort of government over the creatures: but his original sanctification is quite rooted out, and there are no remains of it in him. Paul is full this,