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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 23 (Question 4 cont.)
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Holy Men, are Men after his heart, Acts 13.22. But those that go about to cross him in his ends, and that swerve from his great and holy law, he cannot endure them, nor will he defile himself by having any thing to do with them he cannot so much as look on them, Hab. 1.13. Thou are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. (Psal. 5.4, 5.) And that he executes such amazing Judgments upon impure and obstinate Sinners, herein he shows his Holiness eminently: The Psalmist saith, Psal. 9.16 The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion, Selah. q. d. Let all the world meditate on this, ⟨p. 74⟩and how is he known but in his Holiness? When Man that was made upright, and was a friend and intimate of his, fell from his Integrity, God turned him out of Paradise, and made the Curse to fall upon him; Sin therefore is said to separate between God & Man, Isa. 59.2. When proud Pharaoh would jostle with God, and set himself to oppose him, what fearful Plagues, and what astonishing ruin did he bring upon himself; and Moses confesseth him herein to show himself glorious in holiness, Exod. 15.11. When God thus comes to recover his Glory of his insolent enemies, he tells the world that he i• an Holy God. 3. IN […] way of Man's Redemption by Christ […] God would exalt his Mercy, in the recovery of a Company of Sinners from the misery they were fallen into, who had sinned and fallen short of his Glory; rather than do it in any such way as should in the least reflect on his spotless purity, or give the world any ground to suspect that he had any favour for Sin, the gave his own Son for a ransom, and punished Sin in him without any favour, he made him to bear the whole weight of wrath that was due to his Elect. When therefore the Son of God was under the terrible forsakings of his Father, and severest impressions of his Anger for Sin, which he undertook to satisfy for, he then takes notice of, and acknowledgeth his Holiness,