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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 24 (Question 4 cont.)
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JUSTICE among Men, is usually ranked under two heads, viz. Commutative and Distributive: It is the latter of these which comes nearest to the discovery of the Relative Justice of God to us, because the dispensation of it belongs properly to his Gubernation. Commutative Justice argues some equality between Persons; whereas distributive Justice is dispensed between unequals; or is the Administration of a Superior to Inferiors.
JUSTICS among Men, is usually ranked under two heads, viz. Commutative and Distributive: It is the latter of these which comes nearest to the discovery of the Relative Justice of God to us, because the dispensation of it belongs properly to his Gubernation. Commutative Justice argues some equality between Persons; whereas distributive Justice is dispensed between unequals; or is the Administration of a Superiour to Inferiours.
THERE is a Justice which-God observes in the management of the whole World, and every Creature is a sharer in this; but the most radiant beams of this Perfection are refulgent to us in the Transactions that pass between God and his Reasonable Creatures, Angels & Men; and it is most profitable for us to consider it in reference to the latter. In order to a more particular View of this, I shall premise in general:
1. THAT the foundation of distributive Justice is some law that is obliging to the subject. Humane reason can have no conception of this Justice, without a pre-conception of a law upon which it is built. It is true, where absolute Sovereignty hath a prerogative, its Administrations must needs be just: and Gods Sovereignty is his Absolute Justice; but we must distinguish between the Attributes of Lordship, and Justice in God; for he intended the displays of this as well as that in his transactions with his Creatures Justice must refer to a Law, and to a Law promulgated; and therefore where there is no Law, there is no Obedience, no transgression, no recompenses, no room for any Justice to discover it self;