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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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and accordingly he made creatures capable of being transacted withal in order hereunto. It is a rule without exception, that whatsoever comes to pass in time, was ordained before time; but we are assured that there is such a thing in the event, and we are told, Prov. 16.4. The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. And, Jude 4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. (2.) THAT be accordingly constituted a law of justice, between him and the reasonable creature. That there was such a constitution, between Him and the Angels is to be supposed, because they are to be judged at the last day. 1 Cor. 6.3. Know ye not that we shall judge Angels. 2 Pet. 2.4. For if God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them down to bell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment. That he did so with men, appears from, Gen. 2.17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not ••t of it; for in the day that thou catest thereof, thou shalt surely dye. And elsewhere frequently in Scripture. Now in the constitution of this law, there was a presumption of their breaking it, and a punishment threatened in case of such a breach, which is called Death, and what a death it was, the whole word of God serves to inform us. (3.) THAT God voluntarily permitted some Angels, and all Mankind to bring themselves under the threatening by their transgression. He left them to fall: there was his permissive providence in it, he could else have kept them from falling, as well as he made them upright; and by their so falling, they, ipso j•tto, came under the sentence of condemnation; they were made guilty. But of these things I have before spoken distinctly. (4.) THAT God leaves all Devils, and some of mankind to abide under this sentence. There is a way of recovery found out for man, according to the new Covenant; but there is none at all for the Devils, and therefore they are altogether desperate: but all men are not recovered in that way, but multitudes are left under the condemnation, in which they were born, and that is, to be children of wrath,