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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 62 (Question 19)
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1. THE wrath of God is His revenging Justice, inclining Him to take vengeance on sinners, according to their deserving. Anger and wrath are ascribed unto God frequently in Scripture, not as if He had any such affections or passions in Him; but because he doth such things in His providence, as among men are the usual effects of such an affection; but they refer to his relative Justice, of which we have formerly had an account. Only let us here call to mind, that this justice exerts it self to men, according to the respect they bear to the rule of it, Rom. 2.6. Who will render to every man according to his deeds. They are supposed to come under either the promise or threatening, and justice is concerned in both. With respect to the former it is called rewarding, to the latter revenging justice. This latter is called His anger and wrath, because He herein makes it appear, how displeasing sin is to Him He verifies the truth or that, Hab. 1.13. Thou art of ⟨p. 218⟩purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look of iniquity. This wrath then is contrary to His Favour, and c•mes in upon the removal of that; so that it is impossible for a creature to fall out of His Favour, but it must upon it fall under His Displeasure. And it is a very righteous wrath, it is nothing else but what si••ers justly deserve for their sin. 2. Th•s. 1. […]. For, since that sanction of the law a which this was threatened is just, the execution of it must needs be so too.
1. THE wrath of God is His revenging Justice, inclining Him to take vengeance on sinners, according to their deserving. Anger and wrath are ascribed unto God frequently in Scripture, not as if He had any such affections or passions in Him; but because he doth such things in His providence, as among men are the usual effects of such an affection; but they refer to his relative Justice, of which we have formerly had an account. Only let us here call to mind, that this justice exerts it self to men, according to the respect they bear to the rule of it,