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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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1. IT hath no notices of the Person of CHRIST, and the Redemption wrought out by him. It might speak something of a Trinity of Persons in the God-head once; though, of that there is scarce any thing to be found in the relicts of it since the Fall: but that the second Person should be made Man, and subject himself to the Law, and make satisfaction for sin, and make way that man might be justified by his imputed Righteousness, and saved by his merits,—here was a deep silence. Some would have Adam to be a Type of Christ; but if he were, he was an arbitrary, and not a natural one. Others would have us to believe, that Adam before his fall knew of the Incarnation of the Son of God: but we have no evidence for this in Scripture; and if he did, it must be by revelation. Others have thought that the Gentiles Sacrifices intimate some dark apprehensions of Satisfaction by another: but it is certain, sacrificing was handed down to the World by Tradition from Noah, and not by the light of nature; and that the Heathen looked upon them as satisfactions ex Opera •perato, and not as shadows of a better Sacrifice. Hence the preaching of a Christ is so far from the gust of humane reason, that it hath the reputation of so•l shurss by it. 1 Cor. 1• 23. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks, foolishness.
1. IT hath no notices of the Person of CHRIST, and the Redemption wrought out by him. It might speak something of a Trinity of Persons in the God-head once; though, of that there is scarce any thing to be found in the relicts of it since the Fall: but that the second Person should be made Man, and subject himself to the Law, and make satisfaction for sin, and make way that man might be justified by his imputed Righteousness, and saved by his merits,—here was a deep silence. Some would have Adam to be a Type of Christ; but if he were, he was an arbitrary, and not a natural one. Others would have us to believe, that Adam before his fall knew of the Incarnation of the Son of God: but we have no evidence for this in Scripture; and if he did, it must be by revelation. Others have thought that the Gentiles Sacrifices intimate some dark apprehensions of Satisfaction by another: but it is certain, sacrificing was handed down to the World by Tradition from Noah, and not by the light of nature; and that the Heathen lookt upon them as satisfactions ex Opera perato, and not as shadows of a better Sacrifice. Hence the preaching of a Christ is so far from the gust of humane reason, that it hath the reputation of sol shurss by it.