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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. IF we ask Why God pitched upon fallen Men rather than fallen Angels: That when all the vast Number of Apostate Spirits are kept in Chains of Darkness, and not one of them is brought back to Salvation, but they must forever feel the smart of their Disobedience; God should see meet to lift up the Heads of some of desolate Mankind from the Prison, and set them at his own Table: What was there in Man more than in an Angel to prefer him in the Choice? Paul puts therefore a Remark on this, Heb. 2.16. For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
1. IF we ask Why God pitcht upon fallen Men rather than fallen Angels: That when all the vast Number of Apostate Spirits are kept in Chains of Darkness, and not one of them is brought back to Salvation, but they must forever feel the smart of their Disobedience; God should see meet to lift up the Heads of some of desolate Mankind from the Prison, and set them at his own Table: What was there in Man more than in an Angel to prefer him in the Choice? Paul puts therefore a Remark on this, Heb. 2.16. For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
2. IF we ask a Reason of the vast Difference made between Man & Man: Why this Man is recovered out of his Misery, and the other left to perish in it: All were equally Children of Wrath, Eph. 2.3. equally become Unprofitable, Rom. 3.12. equally full of enmity against God, Rom. 8.7. equally capable of Salvation: Almighty Power could have done it for one as well as for the other: The same Price would have paid for their Redemption; the same Spirit could have converted them: It must be nothing but astonishing Grace that determined this Case.