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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 63 (Question 19 cont.)
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II. IT now follows that we take a view more particularly of those miseries, that arise from this condition. And what is he not to expect, who is fallen out of God's favour, and fellowship, and subjected to his wrath and curse? These are variously distributed by Divines: out Catechism refers it to three heads; unto one of which all that can be thought of may be reduced: and I shall take them up in order.
1. THAT are made liable to all miseries in this life. Here are two things. 1. Their obnoxiousness to these miseries. 2. The miseries themselves.
1. THET are made liable to all miseries in this life. Here are two things. 1. Their obnoxionsness to these miseries. 2. The miseries themselves.
I. AS to their obnoxiousness to these miseries; This refers to all three heads, and may be here spoken to, once for all. This Hows immediately from that guilt, of which we before had an account, under which all mankind are fallen, by virtue whereof they are thus exposed. And this indeed is a very miserable condition in it self; and yet withal it affords some relief to those unto whom the law is delivered in the hands of a Mediator. Give me leave then a little to lay it open in the following conclusions.
I. AS to their obnoxiousness to these miseties; This refers to all three heads, and may be here spoken to, once for all. This Hows immediately from that guilt, of which we before had an account, under which all mankind are fallen, by vertue whereof they are thus exposed. And this indeed is a very miserable condition in it self; and yet withal it affords some relief to those unto whom the law is delivered in the hands of a Mediator. Give me leave then a little to lay it open in the following conclusions.