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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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1. THEY go to h•ll, […] to be tormented. That is the very design of the place, and the one supposeth the other. See Luk. 16.23. And in hell he list up his eyes being in torments. And the lamentable cry of the forlorn wretch, ver. 24. For I am tormented in this flame. The word torments is a metaphor from a rack on which persons were put to force a confess out of them, and is used in the New Testament for the most exquisitely painful diseases, and the travailing pains of women: and the other word, tormented, is of the same import. Here it is that the execution of the sentence of Gods wrath upon sinners is made: here they are to feel the effects of the doom which was past upon them in the law, and by the great Judge. And torments must needs be very great miseries: especially it we consider, what they are, and after what ma•• they be inflicted. Hence,
1. THEY go to h•ll, 〈…〉 to be tormented. That is the very dosign of the place, and the one supposeth the other. See Luk. 16.23. And in hell he list up his eyes being in torments. And the lamentable cry of the forlorn wretch, ver. 24. For I am tormented in this flame. The word torments is a metaphor from a rack on which persons were put to force a confess out of them, and is used in the New Testament for the most exquisitely painful diseases, and the travailing pains of women: and the other word, tormented, is of the same import. Here it is that the execution of the sentence of Gods wrath upon sinners is made: here they are to feel the effects of the doom which was past upon them in the law, and by the great Judge. And torments must needs be very great miseries: especially it we consider, what they are, and after what ma•• they be inflicted. Hence,