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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 26 (Question 4 cont.)
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1. THE Clemency of God, is God inclined to spare Sinners a while, that deserved presently to die. Man is no sooner a Sinner, but he is a Child of Death: as soon as ever sin is committed, God hath an advantage put into his hands, which he might immediately lay hold of, and make the Creature know his fury; but in Justice he remembers Mercy, Clemency holds his hands, so as that he doth not strike the Sinner down dead upon the place; and this is a fruit of Mercy, Lam. 3.22.2 Chron. 36.15: Psal. 78.38. But he being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed there not; yea, many a time turned be his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. Now there are two other Attributes, in which this Clemency of God shines out, which are, as we may say, the degrees of its discovery, viz. his Patience and his Long-suffering, in both of which God makes to appear how willing he is to spare the Sinner. These may be severally spoken to
1. THE Clemency of God, is God enclined to spare Sinners a while, that deserved presently to die. Man is no sooner a Sinner, but he is a Child of Death: as soon as ever sin is committed, God hath an advantage put into his hands, which he might immediately lay hold of, and make the Creature know his fury; but in Justice he remembers Mercy, Clemency holds his hands, so as that he doth not strike the Sinner down dead upon the place; and this is a fruit of Mercy, Lam. 3.22.2 Chron. 36.15: Psal. 78.38. But he being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed there not; yea, many a time turned be his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. Now there are two other Attributes, in which this Clemency of God shines out, which are, as we may say, the degrees of its discovery, viz. his Patience and his Long-suffering, in both of which God makes to appear how willing he is to spare the Sinner. These may be severally spoken to