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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 28 (Question 4 cont.)
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(1.) CONSIDER the Subject by himself positively, what an one he is; and we shall find,
1. THAT he is altogether undeserving of any of this. He is wholly without the least Merit of it: He did not deserve the least common M••ry, Gen. 32.10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant —. much less then such Grace: might say as he, 2 Sam. 19.28. For all my fathers house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that eat at thy own table —. They had no Merit of Condignity, had nothing to show that could lay Claim of Title to this Inheritance; it must be given them, Rom. 6. ult. For the ••ges of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Nay they had not so much as any Merit of Congruity, if that may be called Merit; were neither in a Posture •••ting to receive these Blessings nor any way able to dispose or prepare themselves thereunto; unprofitable and useless Creatures: God himself must first make them meet for the Inheritance, before they could partake in it.
1. THAT he is altogether undeserving of any of this. He is wholly without the least Merit of it: He did not deserve the least common M••ry, Gen. 32.10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant —. much less then such Grace: might say as he,