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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. ELECTION is an Act of Grace. Rom. 11.5. Even so thou at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. Eph. 1.5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. It is impossible that any Created finite Agent should move or incline the Eternal and Immutable Will of God, to set his Love upon some, who were to receive their Being and their All as the Result of his good Pleasure; or that any thing besides his own Good Will should direct him to put down this Man's Name in the Lamb's Book of Life, and leave out others, who were all to be of the same Lump, all alike and under the same Capacity.
2. REDEMPTION is also an Act of free Grace; and there is manifold Grace to be observed in it: It was inexpressible Love in God to send his Son to redeem us; Joh. 3.16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. It was incomparable Love in Christ to come upon this Errand; Eph. 3.19. — The Love of Christ which passeth knowledge —. It was mere free Grace in God, to accept of the Redemption of Christ, ⟨p. 90⟩and take him in Exchange for Sinners: For tho' a Surety may stand in Law for Debt, yet the Judge may choose whether he will accept of one for a Crime.
2. REDEMPTION is also an Act of free Grace; and there is manifold Grace to be observed in it: It was inexpressible Love in God to send his Son to redeem us; Joh. 3.16