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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 64 (Question 19 cont.)
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SERMON LXIV.
II. IT follows to consider the Miseries themselves, which they are thus liable to; and they are ranked under three heads, the first whereof we are upon, viz.
1. THE miseries of this life. There are two ages in which every one is concerned, Time, and Eternity; and by man's fall, death is become man's passage from the one to the other: now in each of these there are miseries contained, which call for a several distinct observation. There are the inchoations of all miseries in this world, after which death comes, and passeth sinners over to the consummation of them in another. And these are all contained in the curse which is fallen upon man; and that one word, Death, engrosseth them all, and there is something of death in every misery. Man begins to die as soon as he begins to live, and he goes on till he is swallowed up of death. His miseries begin here, and are completed hereafter. Hence we have that expression of our Saviour, Mat. 24.8. All these are the beginning of sorrows. And so some understand the import of that expression. Gen 2.1•. Dying thou shalt die. q. d. ⟨p. 224⟩Thou shalt be always dying, dying, till thou ar• perfectly dead. So that the miseries of this life differ not from those that follow, so much for kind, as degree.
1. THE miseries of this life. There are two ages in which every one is concerned, Time, and Eternity; and by man's fall, death is become man's passage from the one to the other: now in each of these there are miseries contained, which call for a several distinct observation. There are the inchoations of all miseries in this world, after which death comes, and passeth sinners over to the consummation of them in another. And these are all contained in the curse which is fallen upon man; and that one word, Death, engrosseth them all, and there is something of death in every misery. Man begins to die as soon as he begins to live, and he goes on till he is swallowed up of death. His miseries begin here, and are compleated hereafter. Hence we have that expression of our Saviour,