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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 4 (Question 2)
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2 HAPPINESS was proposed to Man •• first in a Covenant-Way. That there was a Covenant between God & […], the Scripture •• sures us and gives us an account of the Nature and Terms of it. Now in a Covenant there are always those two things, Something promised upon condition on one part, and the conditions required on the other part, in order to the obtaining it. The Thing proposed to Man in the first Covenant was Happiness. The manner of proposing it, was by telling him how he was to come by it if ever he expected to become the owner of it. The Terms therefore so run, Do & Live, Rom. 10.5.
2 HAPPINESS was pro••osed to Man •• first in a Covenant-Way. That there was a Covenant between God & 〈…〉, the Scripture •• sures us and gives us an account of the Nature and Terms of it. Now in a Covenant there are always those two things, Something promised upon condition on one part, and the conditions required on the other part, in order to the obtaining it. The Thing proposed to Man in the first Covenant was Happiness. The manner of proposing it, was by telling him how he was to come by it if ever he expected to become the owner of it. The Terms therefore so run, Do & Live, Rom. 10.5.
3. HENCE there was a fixed or stated way, to which Man's being made happy was restrained. For, if Happiness were not promised to man absolutely, but hypothetically, it must needs depend upon that •hy• ••••is; and the performance of the Condition is the way to his felicity: and that this was fixed, is therein evident, because together with a firm Promise made to him, That if he obeyed, he should be happy, there was as strong a Threatening, That if he came short of it, he should undoubtedly be miserable,