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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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USE I. LET this serve to alarm all Sinners to a trembling expectation of dying every moment. And it concerns not only those that are Old and crazy, and under sensible decays of nature: but the Youngest, healthiest, and most likely to live. Remember then, that Death is not only a thing that your frail nature subjects you to, but that unto which you are sentenced by a righteous God, as a just punishment of sin; that it is a curse of the law, which is fallen upon you, by reason of it; that you were no sooner sinners, then ⟨p. 234⟩children of death, a•d that you were as so•• as you were N••: for th•• you were sinners a•d children of wrath you are c••dem••d already, the •••re ce•sta•ds against you, a•d there is nothing but divine indulgence that suspends the putting •t it in exe••t•ca, which is at his pleasure, and you cannot promise your selves one hours patience longer to be used with you. Take heed of pleasing your selves with ungrounded promises. How vain is it for a condemned malefactor to comfort himself with saying, I am as likely to live as any man; I am in youth, and health, &c. when the law hath made him a man of death, and he is going to execution? And remember, it is a cursed death you are going to; well may it be called a King of terrors. Read over th• miseries that accompany it, and say whether it be not to be trembled at.
USE I. LET this serve to alarm all Sinners to a trembling expectation of dying every moment. And it concerns not only those that are Old and crazy, and under sensible decays of nature: but the Youngest, healthiest, and most likely to live. Remember then, that Death is not only a thing that your frail nature subjects you to, but that unto which you are sentenced by a righteous God, as a just punishment of sin; that it is a curse of the law, which is fallen upon you, by reason of it; that you were no sooner sinners, then