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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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1. HE sees, for he cannot but see That the Sinner pays him not the homage or tribute of Obedience which he owes to him. Man owes to God the whole strength of Body and Soul, to be continually improved for his Glory; to be always lifting of his Name on high, in all his thoughts, words, and actions; but the Sinner doth nothing less, God is not in all his thoughts, Psal. 10.4.
2. HE sees the Sinner daily going on into more and more Sins; running himself into further and more provocation, increasing of Iniquity, adding of Sin to Sin, Isa. 30.1. Instead of reforming former ways, and returning from them, he is multiplying of transgressions: Sinful Man is every day throwing in one more stick to his pile, running further and deeper on the score; every new Action hath a new exorbitancy accompanying of it, and still the more he acts, the more he Sins; all this God sees.
2. HE sees the Sinner daily going on into more and more Sins; running himself into further and more provocation, encreasing of Iniquity, adding of Sin to Sin, Isa. 30.1. Instead of reforming former ways, and returning from them, he is multiplying of transgressions: Sinful Man is every day throwing in one more stick to his pile, running further and deeper on the score; every new Action hath a new exorbitancy accompan•ing of it, and still the more he acts, the more he Sins; all this God sees.
3. HE sees how the Sinner grow rse and worse every day, instead of growing better.