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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 5 (Question 2 cont.)
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A. WE may here (to expedite this matter) call to mind, that there have been […] Covenants, in which God hath readed with men about their happiness, viz. that of Works, and that of ••ace. As to the former, or that of works, there needs no […] of this Consideration to it, because man is no […] to expect felicity by it. If fallen man could have attained his end according to the tenor of that, the second had been superstitious. Gal. 3.21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily Righteousness should have been by the law. That Covenant stands armed with Curses, and all that are nader it can expect nothing else: Ver. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, […] under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. And yet if there were need, it might be evidenced that God's Word was Man's only Rule there; but because Adam's apostate Children can expect Life & Salvation only according to the tenor of the Covenant of Grace, it will suffice to make it appear, that the Word of God is the only Rule, to direct us to glorify and enjoy him, in the way of this Covenant. And this will be manifest by these Propositions.
A. WE may here (to expedite this matter) call to mind, that there have been 〈…〉 Covenants, in which God hath readed with men about their happiness, viz. that of Works, and that of ••ace. As to the former, or that of works, there needs no 〈…〉 of this Consideration to it, because man is no 〈…〉 to expect felicity by it. If fallen man could have attained his end according to the tenour of that, the second had been supers••ous. Gal. 3.21. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily Righteousness should have been by the law. That Covenant stands armed with Curses, and all that are nader it can expect nothing else: Ver. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, 〈…〉 under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. And yet if there were need, it might be evidenced that God's Word was Man's only Rule there; but because Adam's apostate Children can expect Life & Salvation only according to the tenour of the Covenant of Grace, it will suffice to make it appear, that the Word of God is the only Rule, to direct us to glorify and enjoy him, in the way of this Covenant. And this will be manifest by these Propositions.