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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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3 THE end or design of their being in this place, is to undergo everlasting punishment. So our Saviour Christ expresseth it, Mat. 25. ult. Hence we read of the sorts of hell, Psal. 18.5. the damnation of hell, Mat. 23.33. being tormented in hell, Luk. 16.23. and of hell fire, or the fire of hell, Mat. 5.22. Touching the eternity of these punishments, it belongs to an after consideration; but that it is a place of punishments, yet further bespeaks the terribleness of it: especially if we consider that here they are to be completed. All punishment is a misery, else it could not bear that name: those that are undergone in this life are experienced to be so; but alas! they are but the beginnings of sorrows; and here they are to receive their perfection. There is nothing else but punishment to be heard of in hell; it is the place where God will inflict all his wrath upon his enemies. Here sinners had a great deal of mercy mixed with their misery, but there shall be none at all. Isai. 27.11. He that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that f•rmed them will show them no savour. There is nothing to be heard of in this place but endless ••rments. It is an eternal rack on which the creature is kept without any intermission or breathing while. If there had been no sin, there had been no punishment and consequently no hell.
3 THE end or design of their being in this place, is to undergo everlasting punishment. So our Saviour Christ expresseth it, Mat. 25. ult. Hence we read of the sorr•tes of hell, Psal. 18.5. the damnation of hell,