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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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5. THAT hence the Way, in which this recovery is to be obtained, depends upon that Pleasure of His. He that might have chosen, whether ever he would have saved us, hath the liberty of prescribing (as he sees meet) how he will bring it about, and upon what Terms we may expect it. If he do not restore us, none can: and if he do, it is free Grace. Who then shall prescribe to him? Or who shall make his terms for him? And for this reason it is, that Salvation is said to belong to God.
6. THAT as God purposed from Eternity to bring back a number of fallen Men, so he provided a new C••••ant-way to accomplish it in. God hath a company of Elect or chosen ones among the ruins of the fall, whom he appointed to felicity in the days of Eternity, before the World was, (Eph. 1.6.) And when he appointed them to the End, he also allotted the Means, by which they should reach it. Eph. 1.4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should he holy, and without blame before him in love. The new and living way was then fixed, & peremptorily resolved upon; and it was but one way that was then determined, unto the which the terms of the new Covenant are in the publication of it restrained. Mark 16.16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but be that believeth not, shall be damned.
6. THAT as God purposed from Eternity to bring back a number of fallen Men, so he provided a new C••••ant-way to accomplish it in. God hath a company of Elect or chosen ones among the ruins of the fall, whom he appointed to felicity in the days of Eternity, before the World was, (Eph. 1.6.) And when he appointed them to the End, he also allotted the Means, by which they should reach it.