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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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3. I• HEREIN this bodily death appears […] a misery?
3. I• HEREIN this bodily death appears 〈…〉 a misery?
A. WE must here distinguish of the subjects, viz. Mankind in their natural statue biding under the covenant of works, […] those that are privileged by being brought under the covenant of grace. Death is […] deed made a gain to these, Phil. 1.21. […] die is gain. And belongs to their invented 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul, or Apollos, or •• phas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours. The sting is taken out; but it abides in it unto the other, it is to them a part of the curse, and it hath a great curse in it. We must also take care to put the present seeming advantages it brings with it, into the balla•ce ⟨p. 233⟩against the real mischiefs which attend it; indeed puts a present cad to many outward •oubles and hodily miseries, pains, and vexations which men here u•derge. Job 3.17, 8, 19. There the wicked cease from troubling: •nd there the weary be at rest. There the pris• ••rs rest together, they bear not the voice s• the oppressor. The small and great are there, and be servant is free from his master. And to a godly man there is comfort in this, but to he sinner it affords no true relief; for if it aries him from bad to worse; if by it he eaps out of the frying-pan into the fire, what sle profited? And there are these things which give demonstration to it.