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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 52 (Question 13 cont.)
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SERMON LII.
II. WE are now to proceed to consider the blameable Causes of the Apostasy: and these are reckoned to be either the instrumental or the principal. The ground of this distribution is, because man fell by Temptation, and therefore the tempters are reckoned as instruments in this affair; and yet because they could but tempt, and he had a power of resistance, there is an higher cause than they: and because it was their duty not to tempt him, and his not to be tempted by them, both are therefore blameable.
II. WE are now to proceed to consider the blameable Causes of the Apostacy: and these are reckon'd to be either the instrumental or the principal. The ground of this distribution is, because man fell by Temptation, and therefore the temptersare reckoned as instruments in this affair; and yet because they could but tempt, and he had a power of resistance, there is an higher cause than they: and because it was their duty not to tempt him, and his not to be tempted by them, both are therefore blameable.
First. WE may begin with the Instrumental, because they were leading: and these are reckoned to be three, viz. the Devil, the Serpent, and the Woman That the Serpent was an instrument used in the temptation is not to be denied; but whether blameable or no will be considered in the place of it.