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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 65 (Question 19 cont.)
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(4.) THE soul •uth ••st it's hope. Hope is the remainder of life in a languishing soul, and the only sign that it hath day breathing in it, Rom. 8.24. For we are saved by hope. But this also man hath lost by his fall. That therefore is one piece of the character of the natural man's state, Eph. 2.12. Having no hope. It is true, there is a door of hope set open to man in the new Covenant, which should make the Gospel precious to all that enjoy it; but in the first covenant, under which all have their natural birth, there is none at all. There was […] room left there for fallen man to rooster any of […] ••ff••. The damage that be a […] was irreparable. There was no […] for him to recover God's image, and •ar••• and promise again.
(4.) THE soul •uth ••st it's hope. Hope is the remainder of life in a languishing soul, and the only sign that it hath day breathing in it, Rom. 8.24. For we are saved by hope. But this also man hath lost by his fall. That therefore is one piece of the character of the natural man's state, Eph. 2.12. Having no hope. It is true, there is a door of hope set open to man in the new Covenant, which should make the Gospel precious to all that enjoy it; but in the first covenant, under which all have their natural birth, there is none at all. There was 〈…〉 room left there for fallen man to rooster any of 〈…〉 ••ff••. The damage that be a 〈…〉 was irreparable. There was no for him to recover God's image, and ar and promise again.