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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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his dominion is in the hearts of natural men, and they are his voluntary vassals, and chose rather to have their ears bored to him, than come out of his service, and what a fearful misery is this? 3. HE is sa•lce under the power of horror of cons••en•e. And this is wholly and properly a Soul misery. Here we may first consider, what this horror is, and then observe how he is under the power of it.
1. FOR this horror of Conscience, it may be thus described; It is thus killing fear, which possesseth a guilty Sinner, a••sing from the apprehension he hath of the wrath of God. Here observe, 1. THE suis••l of this horror is a guilty Sinner. What guilt is, we have before observed; this lying on the man affords to him the ground and reason of horror; if that were removed, the curse would cease, but whilst it abides there is matter for it; the man being by it bound over to suffer eternal vengeance. 2. THAT which c•useth this horror is, the appro••sio• the man hath of the wrath of God. And this is wrought in the conscience of the sinner, which looks upon his guilt, and passeth a sentence upon him for it. And there are these things in it. (1.) HE reads the law, and considers the curses of it; what they are, and for what, and against whom they are denounced; he sees that it is for sin that these curses fall on men, and he looks upon them as terrible things. (2.) HE ••ds himself to be under them by reason of sin. His conscience tells him, thou art the man, the law hath hold of thee; his sins state him in the face, and he cannot deny them; conscience chargeth them on him, and votes him guilty. (3.) HE apprehends the righteousness of God, in s•••s•ing […] sin, according to the sentence. That is applied by his conscience,