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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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2. THAT he was ill-deserving: Not only had no Desert of Glory, but had Ignominy belonging to him; had by Sin & multiplied Transgressions given God abundant Provocations to destroy him; had wearied God with Iniquity; as in Isa. 43.24. Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. Justice had demanded his forfeited Life, & must needs have had it, if Grace had not stepped in and rescued him: He was a Child of Wrath […] really as those in H•ll; Eph. 2.3.—And were by •••ure the children of wrath, even as others.
2. THAT he was ill-deserving: Not only had no Desert of Glory, but had Ignominy belonging to him; had by Sin & multiplied Transgressions given God abundant Provocations to destroy him; had wearied God with Iniquity; as in Isa. 43.24. Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. Justice had demanded his forfeited Life, & must needs have had it, if Grace had not stept in and rescued him: He was a Child of Wrath 〈…〉 really as those in H•ll; Eph. 2.3.—And were by •••ure the children of wrath, even as others.
(2.) CONSIDER the Subject in relation to God; and there we shall see the Excellency of this Grace, in that he doth all this for one whom God hath no need of: He saves none because he could not otherwise have done with them. For,