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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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(1.) THIS corruption hath wholly perverted his superior faculties. Man is principally and most properly accounted a moral agent, by reason of his understanding and will: for it is by virtue of these that he is to be treated after a rational manner; and therefore the most woeful efficacy of this depravation is to be seen in these.
(1.) THIS corruption hath wholly perverted his superiour faculties. Man is principally and most properly accounted a moral agent, by reason of his understanding and will: for it is by vertue of these that he is to be treated after a rational manner; and therefore the most woful efficacy of this depravation is to be seen in these.
1. IN his understanding. This was to be eyes to him, to point out his way; and not only is it become blind and ignorant in spirituals, but perverse too; it is filled full of cursed principles, which pervert and lead it out of the way; he calls good evil, and evil good; he judgeth of things just contrary to the truth; he reckons the service of God to be unprofitable, and the service of sin only advantageous and delectable: accounts man's felicity to consist, not in the fruition of. God, but, in some other thing: and this judgment rules him. Hence this corruption is to be seen,
1. IN his understanding. This was to be eyes to him, to point out his way; and not only is it become blind and ignorant in spirituals, but perverse too; it is filled full of cursed principles, which pervert and lead it out of the way; he calls good evil, and evil good; he judgeth of things just contrary to the truth; he reckons the service of God to be unprositable, and the service of sin only advantageous and delectable: accounts man's felicity to consist, not in the fruition of. God, but, in some other thing: and this judgment rules him. Hence this corruption is to be seen,