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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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4. Satan's Subtlety in tempting was in his assaulting Eve's Faith; he would persuade her that God had not spoken truth, Ye shall not surely die, Gen. 3.4. This was Satan's Master-piece, to weaken her Faith, when he had shaken that, and wrought her once to Distrust, then victa fuit, she presently put forth her hand to Evil.
4. Satan's Subtilty in tempting was in his assaulting Eve's Faith; he would perswade her that God had not spoken truth, Ye shall not surely die, Gen. 3.4. This was Satan's Master-piece, to weaken her Faith, when he had shaken that, and wrought her once to Distrust, then victa fuit, she presently put forth her hand to Evil.
2. Satan's Cruelty in Tempting: As soon as Adam was invested in all his Glory, the Devil cruelly, as it were on the Day of Adam's Coronation, would Dethrone him, and bring both him and all his Posterity under a Curse: We see how little love Satan hath to Mankind; he hath an implacable Antipathy against us, and Antipathies ⟨p. 81⟩can never be reconciled. So much for the Occasion of Adam's Sin, tempted by the Serpent.
II. The Sin itself, Eating the forbidden Fruit: This was very heinous, and that appears three ways: 1. In respect of the Person that committed it. 2. The Aggravation of the Sin. 3. The Dreadfulness of the Effect.