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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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2. THE ••s••rve miseries of the soul are unturned in the suffering of all these things, […] are contrary to it's surety. There are spiritual plagues as well as bodily, which […] fall hath exposed him to, and brought him under. And the principal of these may be reduced to three heads.
2. THE ••s••rve miseries of the soul are unturned in the suffering of all these things, 〈…〉 are contrary to it's s••erty. There are spiritual plagues as well as bodily, which 〈…〉 fall hath exposed him to, and brought him under. And the principal of these may be reduced to three heads.
1. HE is under the power and dominion […] This is a spiritual evil, and the soul is fully concerned in it. Sin re•gas in him, and his••• is under the absolute tyranny of it. He […] the image of fin on him, and the it ••oe••e of it altogether governs him; but of this […] took an account under a former Question all that I shall here say to it is, That the […] is utterly undone by reason of it. He is always heaping up treasures of wrath, •ying in •uel for the devouring fire, he doth […], he cannot please God, he cannot but a splease him. He is always wronging Li••oxa […] giving row woulds to i, he is ensnared in•• destruction, and can by no means deliver his own soul; it is the creatures happiness to be rescued from this subjection.