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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. WHATSOEVER you think, speak, or do, is all of it sin. Gen. 6.5. Psal. 52.3. There is an Anomy accompanying of all. You never thought any thing, spake any thing, did any thing, but in it you swerved from the holy and rights us law of God; there is iniquity to be changed upon all; and now think what a world of sin you stand guilty o•. Well might the P•almist make that demand, Psal. 19.12. Who can understand his errors? can you count up all the words, and deeds, that pass in a day? how much less then are you able to enumerate the innumerable thoughts that are incessantly passing through your hearts? what unaccountable sins then have you to answer for?
2. HENCE, Tour lawful actions, yea, and your duties are sins to you. It may be you think, you do not so transgress the letter of the law as some others do, you avoid all forbidden things, and you attend on commanded duties, but remember that you spoil all those; the very things that are in themselves good, and laudable, are yet sin before God; you sin in eating, and drinking, and following your calling, yea in reading, praying, hearing, &c. you do them without grace, without a designing of God's glory, and they are an abomination.
2. AND if you •mit the doing these duties, you sin still. Many will say, I will leave off, because I sin in doing this thing, but y•u do not so get out of the labyrinth, for that is sin […], and worse than the other; for you are under an obligation actually to serve God, and you break that obligation by your omissions. Hence there is fury, Pear cut thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the saothes that call not on thy name: for they have eaten […] Jacob and devoured him, and perfumed him. and have ade his babitation desolate,