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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 7 (Question 2 cont.)
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Ans. IT is true, our Hopes or Fears will not make their State better or worse; but because there are many that count it cruel not to have an extensive Charity here, and yet it is certain that divers Foundation-Truths are hereby undermined, it will not be amiss to say something to it. Hence therefore, let these Con•••sions be well pondered.
Concl. 1. THAT the Salvation of Elect Infants, without the written word, is not to be doubted of. No doubt but there are Infants that die in their Infancy, who are chosen Vessels, and pass into glory. That these have not the use of the Scriptures is evident, they being altogether uncapable hereof. God therefore hath a secret and unaccountable way of applying the New Covenant-condition to them, and making them fit for glory. And tho' we know not […] it is done, yet we need not suspect but that it is done.
Concl. 1. THAT the Salvation of Elect Infants, without the written word, is not to be doubted of. No doubt but there are Infants that dy in their Infancy, who are chosen Vessels, and pass into glory. That these have not the use of the Scriptures is evident, they being altogether uncapable hereof. God therefore hath a secret and unaccountable way of applying the New Covenant-condition to them, and making them fit for glory. And tho' we know not 〈…〉 it is done, yet we need not suspect but that it is done.
Con. 2. THAT none of fallen Men were ever saved but by & through' Jesus Christ. […] ⟨p. 23⟩[…] the Jews, that there is Salvation in […]. (Acts 4.12.) There never was any other way found out and appointed by God, to bring nay of the lost moe of men to glory in. The […] (