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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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3. HENCE there is no one misery but he is every moment in danger of. All are, as we observed, included in the sentence which is past upon the sinner; now we know that when once a person stands condemned, he is dead in law, and it is at the Judges pleasure when to sign the warrant for his execution; so that though he is now in health and life, as sound as any; other, yet he may be fetched away, and turned out of the world before an hour to an end; and so it may be with the sinner, though at present nothing seems to all him. Hence that, Job. 20, 22, 23. In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cost the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
3. HENCE there is no one misery but he is every moment in danger of. All are, as we observed, included in the sentence which is past upon the sinner; now we know that when once a person stands condemned, he is dead in law, and it is at the Judges pleasure when to sign the warrant for his execution; so that though he is now in health and life, as sound as any; other, yet he may be fetch'd away, and turned out of the world before an hour to an end; and so it may be with the sinner, though at present nothing seems to all him. Hence that, Job. 20, 22, 23. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cost the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
4. HE hath therefore ground of continual expectation of these miseries. And this is a fearful thing. Though he should escape them, yet hath he no security of it, but all reason to be looking out for them; as the condemned prisoner is afraid of every noise he hears, lest the messenger of death is coming for him. We read of some,