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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]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 51 (Question 13 cont.)
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SERMON LI.
1. WE are m•re particularly to consider of the way in which the Apostasy was •rought about: in which the Causes of it come •o be enquired into: and though there is but •ne of them mentioned in the Answer yet we may here methodically look upon the other. Here then we may observe that Divines do distribute these Causes, into those that are blameless, and such as are blameable: and I shall offer something in respect of them both.
1. WE are m•re particularly to consider of the way in which the Apostacy was •rought about: in which the Causes of it come •o be enquired into: and though there is but •ne of them mentioned in the Answer yet we may here methodically look upon the other. Here then we may observe that Divines do distribute these Causes, into those that are blameless, and such as are blameable: and I shall offer something in respect of them both.
1. THE blameless Causes are reckoned three; 1. The Law of the first Covenant. 2. The Decree of God concerning this Affair. 3. The Permissive Providence of God which was at work about it. What inence these had into the Fall, and how far th may be called Causes, I shall endeavour to discover distinctly.