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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 69 (Question 19 cont.)
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SERMON LXIX.
3. THE duration of these miseries, and that is for ever And this is that which puts great emphasis upon all that we have been before considering. To dwell in such a place, and to undergo such miseries there as we have heard of, is in it self terrible; but to do so for ever, that makes it dreadful beyond conception. That it must be so with all those whose unhappy lot it is to come into that horrid place, is an article of faith, which we have confirmed to us by Scripture testimony. See Psal. 92.7. They shall […] for over. Isai. 22.14. Dwell with everlasting burnings. […] the Hebrew and Greek words, translated, for ever, and everlasting, do sometimes intend, though a long, yet a limited time, yet not always so, but frequently a perpetual duration: but this also is expressed in the Scripture by the negative, never, which plainly points us to an eternity. Isai. 66.24. Their worm shall not die, Mat. 9.44. It is therefore put into the sentence of condemnation pronounced in the great Day, Math. 25.41. Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire. And is accordingly executed on them, ver. 46. And these shall go […] into everlasting punishment.
3. THE duration of these miseries, and that is for ever And this is that which puts great emphasis upon all that we have been before considering. To dwell in such a place, and to undergo such miseries there as we have heard of, is in it self terrible; but to do so for ever, that makes it dreadful beyond coception. That it must be so with all those whose unhappy lot it is to come into that horrid place, is an article of faith, which we have confirmed to us by Scripture testimony. See