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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 70 (Question 20)
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SERMON LXX.
QUESTION XX. DID GOD leave all Mankind to perish is the estate of Sin and Misery? ANSWER. GOD having out of his mere good Pleasure from all Eternity, elected some to Everlasting Life, did enter into a Covenant of Grace to deliver them out of the state of Sin and Misery, and to bring them into an estate of Salvation by a Redeemer.
QUESTION XX. DID GOD leave all Mankind to peri•h is the estate of Sin and Misery? ANSWER. GOD having out of his meer good Pleasure from all Eternity, elected some to Everlasting Life, did enter into a Covenant of Grace to deliver them out of the state of Sin and Misery, and to bring them into an estate of Salvation by a Redeemer.
IN the consideration of God's special Government, we have taken notice of the first Covenant, which he indented with Man, and Man's woeful apostasy ensuing thereupon; together with the miserable effects of it; in all of which we have been entertained with a fearful roll written within, and without, with nothing but lamentation, mourning and woe; and if this were all the news that were to be heard, what but horror and despair would abide us? But the Holy God, whose spotless providence was not idle, in the permission of man's fall, had glorious ends in his so permitting it; intending it to be a foil on which he would draw in most lively colours the portraiture of his rich grace. We are therefore here led by the hand, from the sorrowful and heart breaking consideration of man's inexpressible infelicity by his apsty, to the pleasant and soul refreshing contemplation of his Anastasy, or restitution, which is the other thing observable in this special Government. In this Answer then we have, 1. This Doctrine of man's restitution asserted. 2. A full description of it laid down. In which we have, 1. The subjects of it, some. 2. The first original or leading cause of it, His mere good pleasure. 3. The foundation of it, His electing of them from all eternity to everlasting life. 4. The ratification or establishment of it, He entered into a Covenant of grace. 5. The restitution itself with the terms of it, to deliver them from a state of sin and misery. 6. The way in which it is brought about, by a Redeemer. We may take these severally and briefly into consideration;