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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 62 (Question 19)
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II. HERE we have an account of the second part of the punishment, namely, the misery, under which the Apostasy hath brought Adam and all his posterity. A sinful state is indeed in it self a miserable state; to be carnal and sold under sin is a woeful infelicity; but when we speak of sin and misery, A Tributively, the latter intends the unhappy fruits of sin: as those effects whereof this is the m•ral cause, by which man is become wretched. And these fall under our present consideration. I am not now to prove, that these things are befallen mankind, by reason of the first sin; or to give account of the equity that is in it, that hath been done already, under another head. My present business is to lay open this forlorn state, and give it its true colours, that so we may know what we all are out of Christ; it being a conviction necessary in order to our serious enquiry after salvation by Him.
II. HERE we have an account of the second part of the punishment, namely, the misery, under which the Apostacy hath brought Adam and all his posterity. A sinful state is indeed in it self a miserable state; to be carnal and sold under sin is a woful infelicity; but when we speak of sin and misery, A Tributively, the latter intends the unhappy fruits of sin: as those effects whereof this is the m•ral cause, by which man is become wretched. And these fall under our present consideration. I am not now to prove, that these things are befallen mankind, by reason of the first sin; or to give account of the equity that is in it, that hath been done already, under another head. My present business is to lay open this forlorn state, and give it its true colours, that so we may know what we all are out of Christ; it being a conviction necessary in order to our serious enquiry after salvation by Him.
THIS Answer like the former, is rather a distribution than a definition; directing us to those heads unto which this misery is to be reduced. And here we are to observe two things, 1. The condition that man is in from whence those miseries derive. 2. The miseries themselves that derive from it.