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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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5. BUT every child of fallen Adam, is in his natural estate continually liable to all these miseries. Though those who are in a state of grace are exempted yet there are no other but lie open to the invasion and oppression of the curse in all the parts of it. It is true, there are some among these, for whom God hath a secret purpose of good, but for the present they also are open, their present condition is obnoxious; nor are all the mercies which others enjoy, any security to them. And this liability of theirs may be taken notice of in these particulars.
1. ALL these miseries are their portion. This is the unhappy legacy which their first father hath left them; it is that which he brought into the world, and it hath past over to all his posterity, Rom. 5.12. These are the recompense which was laid in, in the first covenant for sinners, it was the wages appointed for sin, Rom. 6.23. It therefore belongs to them all; the holy God once said it, and He will never go back from his word, that the soul which sins shall die; it is that which God owes the sinner, and he will pay it.
2. THEY are already condemned to these miseries. It is true, there is a farther condemnation abides them in the great Day. But for the present they are under a sentence of condemnation; the law hath condemned them, in declaring against all such as they are; hence that, John 3.18. But he that believeth not is condemned already. Their own consciences have also condemned them, whether they hearken to them or no, yet there are these records in them, which will one day be produced, and they be silenced, Rom, 1. ult. And the Apostle argues thus,