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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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1. TO put them in mind what once they were. God would have them to remember it, that so they may the more admire at His free grace which hath delivered them. P••• would have his Ephesians look back, Eph. 2.2, 3. And that they may have a remembrance of it, they feel some of those things which they had deserved for sin; and this is part of the meaning of that in, Rom. 8.10. The body is dead because of sin.
2. THERE is a great deal of sin yet in God's children; and God useth these to help is purge it away. The curse had made poison of all these afflictions; but that being removed from them, and a blessing put into them, they now become medicinal, and though they art grievous, yet profitable; this therefore is the encouragement which God gives his people under them, Isai. 27.9. By this therefore […] the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is […] the fruit to take away his sin. Deut. 8.15. H•b 12.11. Now no chastening for the present st•• eth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness, unto them which are exercised thereby. And therefore the Psalmist could d••• up that plump conclusion, Psal. 94.12. Bless•• is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, […] te•chest him out of thy law. The remains of concupiscence in us are to be mortified, and God makes these serviceable to the morr•• cation of them; he thus makes fin an evil and bitter thing to them.