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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 68 (Question 19 cont.)
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SERMON LXVIII.
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2. THE 〈…〉 that are to be •••ergone is that 〈…〉. These are call•• the 〈…〉 of Hell. The English word, 〈…〉 come from the Latin, 〈…〉, wh••• 〈…〉 punishment: and though in our vulgar account it is restrained to the punishment of sense, yet here we are to extend it to that of i•• too. Under which two heads may be comprized all that the Scripture gives 〈…〉 lager in about this subject.
THE sinner consists of a Soul and a Body; Death makes a separation between these, and now the body is left without any more apprehension of misery, being resolved into it principles, but yet it shall be raised again, ad reaited to the soul, and be judged and punished together with it, at the last day. Here then the Doctrines of the Resurrection, and last Judgment might come in to be handled; but because they are suitably taken notice of in another place in the Cares, I shall refer it thither: only remembering th there will such a time come; and in the mean while, no sooner doth the […] breath leave his body, but his Soul e immediately into these miseries. As s as we read of the rich man's death, the next news is of his Souls being in hell is ments,