A Body of Divinity, Vol. 2 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger CatechismRidgley, Thomas
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A Body of Divinity, Vol. 2 (of 4): Wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended, being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism
_Our first parents were endued with freedom of will_ 93
_Were left thereunto_ 94
_How they were tempted_ 96
_Satan’s subtilty in the temptation_ 99
_Eve represented by Adam_, in a note 103
_Aggravations of their sin_ 105
_Its immediate consequences_ 104
QUEST. XXII. All mankind fell in _Adam_.
Adam _a federal head_ 109
_All fell in him, except Christ_ 112
_His sin imputed to his posterity_ 113
_Penal evils which followed_ 111
_Appointment of his headship vindicated_ 114
QUEST. XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI. Of Sin.
_Original sin_ 118
_Actual transgressions proceed from it_ 120
_Conveyed by natural generation_ 132
_Original righteousness lost_ 121
_Man’s nature inclined to sin_ 123
_Propensity to sin not put into our nature by God_ 124
_Not harmless even in childhood_ 125
_Origin of moral evil_ 127
_The notion of two first causes exploded_ _ibid_
_Pre-existence of souls a mere fancy_ 126
_Corruption of nature not by the soul’s traduction_ 128
_Not from imitation_ _ibid_
_Necessarily ensues on the privation of original righteousness_
131
QUEST. XXVII. Of man’s misery by the Fall.
_Various opinions about the salvation of infants_ 138
_Punishment of original sin increased by actual_ 141
_Sinners liable to God’s wrath and curse_ 143
_Slaves to Satan_ 144
_Sin exists in the intentions_, in a note 145
QUEST. XXVIII, XXIX. Of the punishment of sin in both worlds.
_Of judicial blindness of mind_ 146
_Hardness of heart_ 149
_Sins that lead to it_ 150
_Difference between the hardness found in believers and
judicial_ 152
_Of strong delusions_ 147
_A reprobate sense_ 152
_Vile affections_ 153
_Horror of conscience. When judicial_ 154
_Punishment of sin in outward things_ 155
_In the world to come_ 158
_This will be perpetual_, in a note 159, 160
QUEST. XXX. Of man’s Recovery.
_God’s love the only moving cause of it_ 162
_Covenant of grace. Its various periods_ 166
_Opposed to that of innocency_ 165
QUEST. XXXI. The covenant of grace made with Christ, and, in him, with
the elect.
Covenant, _scriptural sense of the word_ 168
_Between the Father and Son, explained_ 171
_And proved_ 173
_Of redemption distinguished by some from the covenant of grace_
178
_God’s covenant differs from human_ 170
_How he covenants with man_ 181
_How man covenants with him_ 183
QUEST. XXXII. Of the grace manifested in the second covenant.
_Conditions of a covenant, how understood_ 190
_Faith is a duty_, in a note 193
_Meritorious performed by Christ_ 192
_Conditional promises uncertain_ 191
_Interest in Christ, what meant by it_ 189
_Grace glorified, in ordaining, promising, and working faith_ 197
_Other graces promised and connected with salvation_ 195
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