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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 67 (Question 19 cont.)
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THERE are three things here to be wh• notice of, viz. 1. The place where this […] is to be suffered. 2. The miseries that are […] be undergone in this place. 3. The drain […] them. Of these in order.
THERE are three things here to be wh• notice of, viz. 1. The place where this 〈…〉 is to be suffered. 2. The miseries that are 〈…〉 be undergone in this place. 3. The d•rain 〈…〉 them. Of these in order.
1. THE place where this misery is to be suffered, is called Hell. The Hebrews […] many words to express Hell by, used in the Old Testament; the most whereof are in•• rently used for b••th the grave and hell, […] both for the state of the dead and the da••• but there are two words which are me••• rically used for hell it self; viz. T•pher, and The valley of Hinnem: the reason of the metaphor was, because there was a place, a little without the city of Jerusalem, in which the idolatrous Jews had erected the image […] […], where after a barbarous and most cruel manner they burnt their children i• sacrifice to the Idol: which place was […] T•ph•t, because of the sounding of the […] pets which was used at these inhance•• butcheries, to drown the noise of the dolo••• cries of these poor innocents, under their is tolerable tortures: And the valley of H nm, from the ancient land lords,