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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]
printed by B. Green and S. Kneeland for B. Eliot and D. Henchman, 1726
AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 4 (Question 2)
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(2.) MUCH more does Man need a Rule, if we look upon him in his state of Apostasy. And this is that which we are mostly concerned in; for that is the Condition of all Adam's Posterity. That fallen Man needs a Rule to guide him to Salvation, will appear if we consider, —
(2.) MUCH more does Man need a Rule, if we look upon him in his state of Apostasy. And this is that which we are mostly concerned in; for that is the Condition of all Adam's Posterity. That •allen Man needs a Rule to guide him to Salvation, will appear if we consider, —
1. THAT Sin hath made him truly & woefully Miserable and Wretched. He is not only not happy, but he is fallen from that Nearness to it, in which he once stood, into a great Distance from Felicity. He is separated from his end; is fallen short of the Glory of God. (Rom. 2.23.) and is removed from the Enjoyment of him, (Isai. 59 2.) and because in these Two, his Blessedness did consist, the loss of them declares him wretched.
1. THAT Sin hath made him truly & wofully Miserable and Wretched. He is not only not happy, but he is fallen from that Nearness to it, in which he once stood, into a great Distance from Felicity. He is separated from his end; is fallen short of the Glory of God. (Rom. 2.23.) and is removed from the Enjoyment of him, (Isai. 59 2.) and because in these Two, his Blessedness did consist, the loss of them declares him wretched.