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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 67 (Question 19 cont.)
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1. HELL is a place, or it is in a place. Besides those Scripture expressions which infer this truth; when it is called a take burning, &c. Rev. 21.8. said that the wicked shall be thrown or o••t into […], Psal. 9.17. Math. 5.2•. and there is a dista••e said to be between it and heaven, Luk. 16.20. all which expressions do intimate a place, nay and that it is in words called a place of torment, ver. 28. there are two Conclusions which may be easily made to appear. viz. (1.) THAT the punishment of the damned must needs be in some place. If we suppose men and devils to be punished, we must allow them somewhere to be punished. I shall not •••cise on the food notions of men about place, and the nice distinction between locus and abi. It is out of doubt that a finite being cannot be every where at once, or unlimited, for then it were not finite, and why we may not call its abi its place, I know no reason. Devils indeed, and Souls, are spirits, but they are creatures; and if they be here, they cannot be there it was only the rich mans send that was in hell, Luk. 16. and yet he calls it a place: but besides, the bodies of the wicked are also doomed to this punishment, […]. 10.28. which all acknowledge must •••py a place. To talk of an hell, and deny it a place, is to feign an imaginary hell, and so to bring the article it self into question. (2.) THAT hell is a place fixed and determined. It not only shall be in place, but it is assigned where it shall be. This is evident, in that it is said both to be ordained, and prepared by God, Isai. 30.33. Math. 25.41. The first Hebrew word signifies to dispose or put a thing in order; the latter signifies to at a thing for its use; the Greek word signifies both to appoint and make ready: now this could not be, unless the place it self were pitched upon: besides it is the same word that is used concerning the place of the blessed, ver. 34. and we know that that is heaven, a fixed, and determinate place: as therefore that is called a place, so is this a prison,