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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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THIS expectation terribly affrights him. It makes him horribly afraid: he looks upon his punishment as intolerable. Gen. 4.14. He cannot think of it without amazement. Isai. 33.14. The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness surpriseth the hypocrites: who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 3. THIS terrible fear, fills his soul with bitter pangs of sorrow. For such a fear is a present misery, and it over-burdens the man, and he cannot stand up under it, he falls under deep qualms of trouble; the Soul is intolerably wounded by it. Prov. 18.14. But a wounded spirit who can bear? 4. THIS makes his soul to sink and dye within him. It drinks up his spirits; it extinguisheth all his comforts; he goes up and down a damned creature whiles he lives, and hath an hell in his own conscience: and his terrors make him wish he could fly from God, and hide himself away. Hence that, Rev. 6.15, 16. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman bid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains, And said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. And he would fly from himself; yea it makes him an universal terror. Jer. 20 3, 4.
THIS expectation terribly affrights him. It makes him horribly afraid: he looks upon his punishment as intollerable. Gen. 4.14. He cannot think of it without amazement. Isai. 33.14. The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness surprizeth the hypocrites: who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 3. THIS terrible fear, fills his soul with bitter pangs of sorrow. For such a fear is a present misery, and it over-burdens the man, and he cannot stand up under it, he falls under deep qualms of trouble; the Soul is intollerably wounded by it.