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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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A. WE are here to remember that we are considering this as part of Man's punishment for the first sin. And we have already observed, that God doth punish sin with sin, and it is indeed a most fearful punishment; yea all punishments refer to it as the ••• torious and procuring cause. Here let us observe,
1. THAT Man's whole State is rendered sasai by re•s•n of Original Sin. That hath emptied him of all that is good, and filled […] with all evil. He cannot be more univer•• ly, habitually sinful, than he is, as he deti•es from fallen man. The moral image of God which was once on him, is quite gone. Read but that description of a natural man, R•• 3.10, &c. and it will certify us that he is evil, and only evil. He hath lost all po•••, and all inclination to good, and is […] with a greadiness after evil. And what […] be said more as to his real state.
1. THAT Man's whole State is rendred sasai by re•s•n of Original Sin. That hath ••ptied him of all that is good, and filled 〈…〉 with all evil. He cannot be more univer•• ly, habitually sinful, than he is, as he deti•es from fallen man. The moral image of God which was once on him, is quite gone. Read but that description of a natural man, R•• 3.10, &c. and it will certify us that he is evil, and only evil. He hath lost all po•••, and all inclination to good, and is with a greadiness after evil. And what be said more as to his real state.