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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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4. THEY shall lose all the Prayers of God's children. God hath made it the duty of his people, not only to pray one for another, but for sinners too, that they may be converted and saved; and there is a great blessing in having the benefit of such prayers; however they may scorn and mock at them: now they are favoured with them, but then they shall have no more of them. God hath indeed sometimes forbidden his servants to pray for obstinate sinners here; but that is not usual, but there is no liberty for their praying for sinners in hell: praying for the dead is antiscriptural; and if any good men have in their ignorant zeal, built such stubby on the foundation, yet hath it nothing availed, the gulf being then fixed, and hell being place which never releaseth any of its prisoners: and what can prayers obtain, where God hath resolved unchangeably that he will have no mercy?
4. THEY shall lose all the Prayers of God's children. God hath made it the duty of his people, not only to pray one for another, but for sinners too, that they may be converted and saved; and there is a great blessing in having the benefit of such prayers; however they may scorn and mock at them: now they are favoured with them, but then they shall have no more of them. God hath indeed sometimes forbidden his servants to pray for obstinate sinners here; but that is not usual, but there is no liberty for their praying for sinners in hell: praying for the dead is antiscriptural; and if any good men have in their ignorant zeal, built such stubbie on the foundation, yet hath it nothing availed, the gulf being then fixed, and hell being place which never releaseth any of its prisoners: and what can prayers obtain, where God hath resolved unchangeably that he will have no mercy?
5. THEY shall lose all their moral goodness. Though sin hath depraved man's whole nature, so that there remains no theological goodness in him naturally; yet there are few sinners, if any in this world, that are so utterly debauched, but that they have some principles of morality abiding and active in them; which are a civil ornament to them, and so far commend them to the liking of men: yea our Saviour Christ looked upon the moral young man, who came to him, and loved him.