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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 24 (Question 4 cont.)
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but in a Political sense, it […] Sanction that is put to this Rule, ••••ld• Men under Obedience, and preser•• the ••war and prerogative of the Law it self ••w the Sanction of the Law mainly consists in the rec•• pense• determined for Obedience & Disobedience with which it is ratified; which, that they may take place according to the merit of the Case, is that wherein the lawgivers Justice is concerned: When therefore God gave this Law to Man at the first, he added to the Command, a promise of Life to Man, in case he should per••• perfect Obedience to it, and a threatening of Death, if he should violate it; and as be obliged Man to that part of it, which respected his Duty, so he no less bound his Justice, to see to that part of it, which referred to the Conditions which were adjoined to••, Gen. 2.17. But of the gree of the knowledge of good & evi•, thou sr••i not cat of it: for in the day that then eate•• threes, th•n soaked surely die. Rom. 10.7. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of […]. That the man which death th•se things, shall ••ve by them. 5. FROM the consideration of these Conditions ar•seth the distinction of God's Justice, into Rewarding & Revenging. This distinction in clearly asserted and expounded, R•m. 2.6, 7, 8. Who will render to every man according to his deeds. To them, who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honour, and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath. Rewarding Justice, is God inclined to recompense the Creature's Obedience with a constant Life of endless happiness. Revenging Justice is God as fully inclined to recompense the Disobedience of the Sinner with destruction; the former is summed up in the word Life, the latter in that of Death. Both of them are the same Relative Justice, bearing a different respect to the Creature according as it stands related to the Law. 6. THAT these recompenses of rewarding and revenging Justice affixed to the Law, are righteous. A Law cannot be righteous unless the Sanction of it be so; such are these: not only is the Command just and good, but the conditions are right. The Recompense of reward is righteous, not that there is as much intrinsical worth in Man's Obedience, which is but his Duty, as to purchase the Glory promised;