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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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THE miseries then of this life, are All these evils which befall the man from his c•nces••• to his death. Man hath a se••t life to run over in this world, but it is a troublesome […]. Joh 14.1. Man that is •er• of a women, is of […] days, and full of trouble. It is true, mercy moderates these troubles, to some more, […] others less; but as every one is liable to all, so there is none but hath a share in them. And hitherto belongs every thing that is affective to the creature: and that we may take a more distinct view of these things, they may be ranked under two heads.
THE miseries then of this life, are All these evils which befall the man from his c•nces••• to his death. Man hath a se••t life to run over in this world, but it is a troublesome 〈…〉. Joh 14.1. Man that is •er• of a women, is of 〈…〉 days, and full of trouble. It is true, mercy moderates these troubles, to some more, 〈…〉 others less; but as every one is liable to all, so there is none but hath a share in them. And hitherto belongs every thing that is affective to the creature: and that we may take a more distinct view of these things, they may be ranked under two heads.
THE miseries undergone in this life are either corporal or spiritual. These are the two kinds of misery that sinful man is punished withal. The ground of this distribution is, from the two essential or constituting parts of man, viz. Soul and Body, as both of these do part c•pate in fin, so are they both exposed unto punishment: and as they are vastly different in nature, so are the penalties belonging to each diversified, their miseries being suited to their capacities. Soul and Body make one person, and fin is personal, committed by the Soul as the principal, with the Body as its organ or instrument. The person therefore suffers in both. These miseries are uncountable. Hence that,