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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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but, as God promised no more but what he had a power to do, so having past his word, and given his promise to the Creature, it is right for him to perform it, and he would wrong his own Truth if he should not so do. The punishment of Sin is just, it being a Crime against the Supreme Majesty, a rebellion of the Subject against his Sovereign; a wrong done to the Glory of the Infinite God, and therefore cannot but deserve ⟨p. 77⟩the almost p••••ty the Creature is capable of. 7. […] ••••ne g••ry of G•••• Just••• […] •••ding to this law. This is that […] we make the discoveries of this Attri••••, justice considered in him, is his […] li••• […] to do; and upon this account he is […] it, Psal. 45.7. Thou […] righteousness.—L••e in us is an Affection engaging of us […] closure with our Object: the mani•••••• of this is by his standing by his own […], and when he doth so, then he makes it appear, that he is a just God, Now, 8. GOD always eyes this Law in his dispens•••• to his Reasonable creatures, as their Judge. God having fixed this Rule of Government, he now stands by it, and sees to the fulfilment of a: he bears a true respect to it in all his proceedance with the children of Men: he aus impartially, and therefore is said to have as respect of persons, Rom 2.11. All the trials of Men are reduced to, and regulated by this Law; the Sentence which he passeth is recording to it, and such are the […]; (Row. 2. […]) and wherever Ye ••ers into Judgment with Men, there is no bribe can be put upon him, so as to bias him […] his Sentence, or make him to pervert the Ru••• of as Men are found, so it shall certainly go with ••em. Holiness and Justice run through all his Judicial proceedings;