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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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(2.) IN respect of the form of it: it is properly the sentence falling upon the man, whereby he is bound over to suffer these evils. It is the condemnation which comes in upon guilt, which man contracted to himself by his sin. What that guilt is, we have been already told; •o•r the difference between that, and the •••se lies here, Guilt is that which makes the man obnoxious to the law in respect of the threatening, he is by it fallen under that condition; now the Curse is the sentence it self, which comes in immediately upon that Guilt, and is inseparable From it: by guilt the man lies open to the curse, and therefore this presupposeth that; and upon it, it takes hold of him, and dooms him to suffer all that which he hath merited by his sin; he is now devoted, as the malefactor, after the Judge hath past a sentence upon him, is a man dead in law.
(2.) IN respect of the form of it: it is properly the sentence falling upon the man, whereby he is bound over to suffer these evils. It is the condemnation which comes in upon guilt, which man contracted to himself by his sin. What that guilt is, we have been already told; •o•r the difference between that, and the •••se lies here, Guilt is that which makes the man obnoxious to the law in respect of the threatning, he is by it fallen under that condition; now the Curse is the sentence it self, which comes in immediately upon that Guilt, and is inseperable From it: by guilt the man lies open to the curse, and therefore this presupposeth that; and upon it, it takes hold of him, and dooms him to suffer all that which he hath merited by his sin; he is now devoted, as the malefactor, after the Judge hath past a sentence upon him, is a man dead in law.
2. THAT man is become very miserable by falling under this wrath and curse. Here two things (1.) THAT all men are in their natural state under hese. How they came to be under these, and that righteously, hath heretofore been made evident: that they are certainly so, the Scripture is clear for it,