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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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USE. THERE are Five Lessons I would urge from the present consideration; Three for Sinners, and Two for Saints.
I. TO Sinners, that are yet in their sins.
1. SEE what a desperate sol•y and madness it is to live in sin, and count it your delight. One Would think, that if sinners should only compare the pleasures of sin, with the pai•s of hell tha• follow after, and are the recompenses o• it, this might be enough to convince them: But if besides this you compare the duration of your carnal delights, with the eternity of these sufferings which follow, what an addition w•ll this make to the reckoning? How pre•••is is that advice, […]. 11.8. Poor wretch! what dost thou meas? for a •ew vas•: pleasures, to bring thy self into everlasting burnings. The delight of ⟨p. 245⟩[…] is but a crackling blaze, and so expires […]. 7 •. For is the making of th•res under a […] is the […], that also is […]. But the part of it is perpetual: the act will quickly be over, but the sorrow will abide for in••ite ages. On• tat sinners would think of this, when they are going about the gratifying of their own lusts, […] little know how much prrit it would afford you in an hour of temptation.