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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 61 (Question 18 cont.)
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2. IN what respect it becomes sinful?
Ans. IN general, the sinfulness of an action is a moral respect cleaving to it, in regard whereof ⟨p. 213⟩[…] of its Intend. And this is vulgarly called the Obliquity of the action. The […] of moral agents, or causes by coun••• come under a double consideration, phy••• and ••ral. […] is nothing else but me exerting of a natural power, by apply […] to an Object; and so there is a natural […] clear: g•to it as an act: nor c•• it […] done without divine cooperation. M•ral is a respect that it bears to a Rule, by which the agent is obliged, and either agrees with […], or is repugnant to it, and so is either right or wrong; and this repugnancy denominates it sinful. But this will be more distinctly cleared in these particulars,
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