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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. IN his will. This was to, govern his elections; but not only can he not choose God for his portion, but he is wilfully set, and inclined to stand, at an everlasting distance from Him; he therefore bids God to depart from him, Job 21.14. saith that Christ shall not reign over him, Luk. 19.14. he is not to he persuaded to come to Christ. Joh. 5.40. he refuseth the good: his heart is set in him to do wickedly; he will none of God, Psal. 81.11.
2. IN his will. This was to, govern his elections; but not only can he not chuse God for his portion, but he is wilfully fet, and enclined to stand, at an everlasting distance from Him; he therefore bids God to depart from him, Job 21.14. saith that Christ shall not reign over him, Luk. 19.14. he is not to he perswaded to come to Christ. Joh. 5.40. he refuseth the good: his heart is set in him to do wickedly; he will none of God, Psal. 81.11.
(2.) IT hath vid•ared bis inferior, faculties and powers; making them servants to sin. What this influence is, is not easy to describe; but we know that all are the subjects of sanctification. 4 Thes. 5.23. and therefore they are under this pollution. Hence;
(2.) IT hath vidared bis inseriour, faculties and powers; making them servants to sin. What this influence is, is not easy to describe; but we know that all are the subjects of sanctification. 4 Thes. 5.23. and therefore they are under this pollution. Hence;