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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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In regard to Repr••••• […] is his bounty or common goodness, which bears with them in Patience, and gives them a•••dance of the blessings of life, Job 21.5, &c. This indeed is not properly Justice, but Favour, they have no claim; but his Justice is not blemished by its all this is but an indulgence to them as Prisoners, before the day of trial and execution; and this satisfied, Job 21.29, 30. Have ye not asked them; that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens? That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction; they shall he brought forth to the day of wrath. And not only so, but he will call them to an account for all this, and the abuse of it will add to their indictment: abused goodness turns into treasures of wrath, Rom. 2.3, 4. In respect of the Elect, there is his special Grace appearing in the pardon of their Sins, and restoring them to his savour, and bestowing on them Eternal Life, who were guilty and condemned by the Law: and here Justice is not injured, but highly honoured, in that he hath provided its satisfaction in Jesus Christ, who hath born the penalty due, and therefore in him Justice and […] are at Agreement; […] that, R•m••••. It […], I say, is this […] that he night be […], and […] which be•••veth in Jesus. And indeed, never had Justice rode in such stately triumph•, had not the Son of God in our nature and stead resigned himself up into its hands.
In regard to Repr••••• 〈…〉 is his bounty or common goodness, which bears with them in Patience, and gives them a•••dance of the blessings of life, Job 21.5, &c. This indeed is not properly Justice, but Favour, they have no claim; but his Justice is not blemished by its all this is but an indulgence to them as Prisoners, before the day of trial and execution; and this satisfied,