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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 66 (Question 19 cont.)
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or what force could there be in it, to tell him that if he transgressed the command he should certainly die, or what awe could it lay upon him, if he knew before that whether he obeyed or no, he must dye, nor could be prevent it, by his most perfect obedience, being made for it? True, the death of the body is not all intended in that threatening which grasps in it, all the miseries of Soul and Body, here and hereafter. But the Apostle applies it to the body, Rom. 8.10. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin. He thereupon argues mans being under the law before Moses by this very thing, Chap. 5.14. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression. And Gen. 5. is an historical exemplification of the effect of the sentence in this part of it. 4. MAN had not died, if God had not withdrawn the blessing of immortality which at first be bes••••ed upon him. There indeed needed to new principles to be put into man to make him mortal; but if that blessing had abode upon him, nothing should have impaired his health, nor shortened his life; […] inward malady should have seized him; •o foreign violence had fallen upon him; […] casualty had cut him him off: so this the Psalmist alludes, Psal. 91.10. But this being suspended, he now lies exposed to everything that may bring him to his dust. Now this blessing was conferred upon him by promise not absolute, for then it must have been perpetual; but conditional: it must then come in upon his violation of the condition, and that could be nothing else but his Apostasy. 5. THE ••rd of God everywhere makes […] to be the procuring moral cause of death. I we consult the divine Oracle, and ask there how it comes to pass that there are so many graves digged in the world; it will even point us to fin as the source of it. See Rom. 8.10. And if man dies by a law, what b• can that be, but that in which God threatened him with death in case of sin? And we have that interpretation given of it,