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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 so revenging justice must take place upon them personally; for God will be as good as his word, and will give a full accomplishment unto it. 1 Sam. 15.29. And also the strength of Israel will not lie, nor repent: for he is not a man that he should repent. (5.) THE punishments appointed for them by ••••tence are righteous; Esse it could not be justice to execute them. The punishing a person according to law cannot be a righteous thing, unless the law appointing it be a righteous law, nor can that be so, except the offence be so great as to merit a punishment as high as is denounced; but so it is here, Rom. 6.23. For the wages of sin is death. And so it is declared concerning this very thing in, 2 Thes. 1.6. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God, to rec•m•ence tribulation to them which trouble you. The truth is, the creation is not capable of suffering a penalty greater than sin must needs deserve, nor so great in quantity or measure, and therefore it must supply it in its duration. (6.) GOD will have these to be everlasting monuments of this Attribute. The creatures that are concerned with this justice are immortal creatures; at least as to their spiritual part: and God would have this righteousness of his to shine forth for ever in the subjects of it. As therefore he will have them to abide through eternity, so he will continue this punishment of theirs through the same duration. Hence that, 2 Thes. 1.9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. But more of this afterwards. (7.) HENCE God appointed hell for the exaltation of this justice in. As the creature is designed for an eternity, so it must be somewhere disposed for it; this place therefore God contrived for the endless abode of his enemies; and for that reason it is called their own place, because as they have deserved it, so God hath decreed it for them. As therefore heaven is a place where mercy and grace are to be illustrated in their glory, so hell is a place where justice must fit in state and triumph, where God will show his infinite hatred of sin, and make it to appear that he is just in his distribution to the children of wrath.