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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 61 (Question 18 cont.)
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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.
2. THAT all actual sin, in fallen Man, […] certainly flow from original sin in him. The first Transgression was an actual sin, or make a complication of many actual sins; this brought upon man the loss of his […] holiness, and the corruption of a deped nature. And now out of this fountain […] all these bitter streams; so that it is nothing but the eruption of the inbred corrup that man is full of, which hath put him […] de that unhappy necessity, that if he […] ing, he must sin, he cannot think […] thought without it,