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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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3. APPLICATION also is an Act of free Grace in all the parts of it. Faith whereby we come to have an Evangelical Right to the Promise, is a Gift of God, as well as the Promise it self; Eph. 2.8. For by grace are ye saved, through saith; and that not of your selves: it is the gift of God. The Justification of a Sinner, in Pardoning of his Sin, and adjudging him to Life, is of mere Grace; Rom. 3 24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ. Our being Adopted to the Inheritance of Children, and being made joint Heirs with Christ, is as a great, so an undeserved Favour; Eph. 1.5, 6. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein be hath made us accepted in the beloved. Our Sanctification, or being restored to the Image of God, and furnished with the Graces of his Spirit derives from the same Fountain, and therefore it is called Grace; 2 Pet. 3.18. But grow in grace, &c. Our Perseverance in the Faith, and being kept from falling away, is owing to Him; and must therefore needs flow from Grace, 1 Pet 1.5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation — And what is Eternal Glory, but the Top and Consummation of Grace? and for that reason said to be the Gift of God; Rom. 6.23. — But the gift of God is eternal life, […] Jesus Christ our Lord. Yea all these are but so many Links in one Chain, whereof Election is the first, and so they must bear the same Denomination.
3. APPLICATION also is an Act of free Grace in all the parts of it. Faith whereby we come to have an Evangelical Right to the Promise, is a Gift of God, as well as the Promise it self; Eph. 2.8. For by grace are ye saved, through saith; and that not of your selves: it is the gift of God. The Justification of a Sinner, in Pardoning of his Sin, and adjudging him to Life, is of meer Grace;