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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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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.
I. THE condition that man is in, from whence these miseries derive. And this consists in the relation that he stands in unto God, who as lie is the object and author of all the blessel•ss of the creature, so He is the principal agent in all the punishment that is inflected on them for sin: which relation is expressed, 1. P•••icly, they have lest, &c 2. P•survely, they are under, &c. And needs must their misery be great beyond co•cepti••, whose state is such as this. To the former of these we may refer the punishment of l•st to the latter the punishment of sense, as Divines express them. I shall begin with the former.
I. THE condition that man is in, from whence these miseries derive. And this consists in the relation that he stands in unto God, who as lie is the object and author of all the blessel•ss of the creature, so He is the principal agent in all the punishment that is inflected on them for sin: which relation is exprest, 1. P•••icly, they have lest, &c 2. P•survely, they are under, &c. And needs must their misery be great beyond co•cepti••, whose state is such as this. To the former of these we may refer the punishment of l•st to the latter the punishment of sense, as Divines express them. I shall begin with the former.