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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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4. THE highest end of this punishment, and of God's allotting of this place for it, is the of v•ncement of the glory of his Justice. There is a twofold Justice which we attribute […] God; Sovereign Justice, which is nothing else but his absolute liberty and authority over the works of his hands; of this, Rom. 9.20. Nay but O man, who art thou that repliest against God, shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why bact thou made me thus. And this eminently appears in his eternal purpose. And his Relative Justice, which is exerted in his proceeding according to the rule con•• tuted between him and the reasonable creature; of this, Rom. 9.22. What if God, wi•••• to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. Relative Justice, among men is distributed into, commutation, and distributive: Commutative justice con••• in righteousness observed in the dealings or traffic which men have one with another; and in the proper notion of it, there is to room for it between God and the creature, because we can give nothing worth what we have of him, but receive it all of his bounty hence that, Rom. 11.35. Or who hath fi•• given unto him, and it shall be recompensed a•• him again? Distributive Justice consists in the rewarding or punishing persons according to law and equity: and this God assumes to himself, and it belongs to our present consideration. The foundation of this is in the covenant which God transacted with mankind at first; in which he gave them a law, and ratified it with a promise and a threatening: which were to take place according as he either kept or violated that law. Hence relative and distributive justice is said to be either rewarding or revenging; and we have both of them expounded in, Rom. 2.6, 7, 8. Who wil• render to every man according to his deeds: to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory, and honour, and immortally eternal life: but unto them that are contention and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation, and wrath. It is the latte of these which the consideration of hell belongs to. Here observe,