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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 26 (Question 4 cont.)
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[2.] WHAT are the particular discoveries or displays of this Mercy of God towards Sinners?
Answ. HERE first take this general Rule, That whatsoever Sinners enjoy that is not of Merit, is of Mercy. And that will make way for another, viz. That every thing in the Sinners condition, which is better than Hell, is hither to be assigned, Lam. 3.22. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
THE state of the Sinner in point of merit, doth here come under a double consideration, 1. What he doth deserve, and that is Death; Rom. 6.23. For the wages of sin is death—.And that contains in it all the miseries of this life, but the height of it is in the Eternal state of the damned: hence every mitigation of this, in what degrees so ever, is Mercy. 2. What he doth not deserve, and that is any favour at all. If that good Man could make that ingenious confession, Gen. 32.10. I am not worthy of the least of all the •••th which thou hast showed unto thy servant—.M••t not every Sinner do so? Where all is wholly forfeited, there can be nothing deserved; and hence every good thing which a Sinner enjoys, is part of this Mercy.
THE state of the Sinner in point of merit, doth here come under a double consideration, 1. What he doth deserve, and that is Death; Rom. 6.23