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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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3. THIS notwithstanding, actual sin […] influence into the rendering Man's state […] sinful. It is true, that which is only […] and nothing else, cannot be more so, […] own nature, but yet it may receive ad••• or augmentations in its kind; where it comes to pass, that there is more of […] vil. And there are several things in […] this may be instanced, especially, (1.) EVERT sin leaves both guilt and a […] hind it. These two are inseparable fro•• sin, as it refers to the first covenant, […] which men are in their natural state. 1. THERE is guilt cleaves to it. Th••• fers to that sanction of the law which •••• tained in the threatening. Now this •••• ning is out against the sinner for every s•n […] 3.4. Hence that, Mat. 5.22. But I say […] you, that whose•ver is angry with his […] without a cause s•all be in danger of the ••• meant: and whose•ver shall say to his br•••, Racha, shall be in danger of the council […] wh•soever shall say, Thou sol, shall be in […] of hell fire. It is true, though there be the merit of death in every sin of God's children and they can and do confess it, Dan. 9.1 Psal. 130.3. Yet because their persons […] justified, they are not properly guilty; […] every unconverted sinner, contracts new g••• by every sin that he commits, because the law hath a particular threatening for every act of sin. 2. THERE is also a spot cleaving to it; and this attends upon the sins of the children of God as well as others. For, though gai• being a relation to the law, is removed from them, because they are not under the law but under grace; yet, in as much as this spot