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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 5 (Question 2 cont.)
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HERE I shall take into Consideration a CASE controverted among many viz.
Quest. WHETHER the Light of Nature, which Men bring with them into the world may not be improved, so •• to be a sufficient Rule to guide them to their chief End?
Answ. WE are here to consider Man in his lapsed Estate, and the Light of Nature as It is to be found in him in this estate of his: And thus taken, the Answer is in the Negative. For the full Illustration whereof let these things be thought upon.
1. WHAT the light of Nature at the first only discovered to Man the Rule, by which he was to attain his end, according to a Covenant of Works. It was properly adapted to the first covenant, in which man was by his personal Obedience to serve to God's glory and secure his favour. Hence it contained in it only the moral law or the substance of what was contained in the ten Commandments.