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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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(2.) THE positive misery is, in his being subjected to all those evils which destroy the comfort of his life, and have a tendency to the taking of i• •••y. They make it troublesome whiles it l••ts, and cut it short too of its continuance; and here is an iliad of miseries to be taken notice of, which cannot be enumerated; a few may here be reflected on: and these also refer to the same heads with the former, viz.
1. TO the state of the body […] self. And there are three things that more eminently refer hither. 1. HIS body is become a seat of all manner •f diseases and maladies. His health is gone, and all manner of diseases are ready to prey upon him these belong to the curse, Deut. 28, 59, •0, 61. And, 26.31. There is a disposition come into his body, that exposeth him to take the infection of every disease that is Epidemical; all the sores, and pains, all the chronic and acute distempers which any are vis•ed withal, belong to this; these make the ••as life to hang in doubt before him, take away the comfort of all his comforts from hi•, and present him with the terrors and fears of death it self: and though the curse in •ence other creatures in this respect, yet there is none that lies open to the one half of those maladies which man doth: many of which are extremely tormenting, and all are pining and wasting unto him. 2. HE […] exposed to weariness in his labour. Man was made for business; he would have had an employment, if he had never finned, Gen. 2.15. But it would have been a recreation and delight, without any weariness at all, by reason of his great vivacity and agility: but now his work tires him, his spirits spend, and he grows faint, so that his business is a burden to him, and a little matter puts him out of breath, and his body to pain: and this attends all his affairs,